Oh how I love to rappel !!!

So wow! I had a blast today! We started off the day a bit late ...around 10 am and slept in for once. The Lost Canyon tour that included 4 rappels off waterfalls was sooooooooooooooooooooooo awesome! I love love love it! We met up with the other GAP tour going on the same time as ours and the day was mostly rainy and cold. I wasn´t sure if the water from the waterfall was going to be ice cold or not. Believe it or not ... I wasn´t afraid of the height or doing the rapel but afraid that the water was sooo cold that we had to trek and rappel during the 3 hours in cold frigid waters!

But the water was pretty surprisingly warm! And the first rappel at 20 m was a good start. Our 2nd rapel was 150 m and it was so fun going straight down. It was really safe and the guides knew what they were doing. There was 2 guides for about 12 of us on this tour. The 3rd rappel was about 50 m and the 4th one ... 210m! The last one was a bit tricky for me because my weight didn´t allow me to go down as fast I would like to and I had to work my ass off to go down the 210m waterfall. I got tired halfway and probably build some good right arm muscles there lol.

I´ll put some pics up once we get the CD from the guy. There was one guy who came along that took photos of us doing our thing the whole time which was good because we got so wet that you cannot take a regular camera ... or anything else for that matter. At one point, we had to jump and dive into this deep hole trekking to the next rapel site. I was hoping I would be dry but there was no way to stay dry. No accidents on this one except for what I did to poor Helen there at the end when we were on the trek back to the site after the rappels. I slipped on a rock and my hands went up only to hit Helen on the right side of the face as she was right behind me. All you heard was WHOMP.... I was like...I hope I didn´t hit Helen and that was like a rock or something ... but when I turned around I saw Helen holding her face in shock. Man I feel sooooo bad. After a few minutes her nose was bleeding! Ugh... Sorry Helen!!!!!!

After we got back from the tour we went straight to another tour ... not until after we got our clothes from the laundry service at the hotel we were at. It cost $3US per Kg which was pretty darn good and we needed to do laundry bad. Anyways, the tour we had next was the continuation of the one we started with yesterday at the hot springs ... the Volcano hike. We drove and then stopped to hike around the area for about an hour with our tour guide Elmer - he is one funny dude! And man alive ... what´s with the men pulling their shorts/boarders here ... they pull it til it hits like half way down the ass ... and you can see the crack! The photo guy at the rapel had done the same thing as Elmer ... and yes... we saw the ass crack... not a pretty sight ... anyways... continuing on with the story... Elmer was very knowledgeable about the volcano, the area, the animals around there including their calls and stuff so it was nice to learn as much as we can. We even tasted their Begonias (spelling bad) and it was soo good. Tasted like lemon. We weren´t able to see the volcano based on the weather and time so Elmer had made us Lava Drinks in the dark in an open area by the forest there. And as we drank and talked ... I finally saw fireflies and they were so majestic! I was in awe! It was like christmas lights twinkling in the forest. So pretty!

The night ended with us catching a bite to eat... going to the grocery store to fulfil our sugar buds ... we bought loads of wafers and chocolates ... we are on a wafer kick since Peru and this time we each bought a pack so we can eat it all by ourselves! Such oinkers we are! But oh so good! Then here we are at the internet cafe. But what a day. It was such a great learning experience today... I do dread the cold shower I have to take after ... ugh...Do I long for a hot shower!