Mountain Climbing

This week was a crescendo. I kept getting more and more energy. On Friday I went to Amadeo's Birthday party at his Finca. We went straight from school by bus. I brought a big pillow (everyone thought that was funny). We set up the tents on the porch. It was Me, Ivan, Juancho, Miguel Angel, Kevin, and Amadeo(and his little brother). After setting up the tents we ate a bit and then watched a movie. The next morning at about 7:00am after breakfast we began our memorable hike up the mountain.

I started off fresh after my shower but I made one grave mistake. I wore shorts instead of pants...
If this were a normal hike that wouldn't matter but this was a hardcore colombian mountain hike. We started off climbing/crawling up a half-dry river. There were tons of briars and close calls wear I almost fell in the creek. Then we got to the path and and kept hiking until we got to a steep hill. It was great. :) After about 2 hours we arrived at as far as we could go without trespassing on private property. It was a cool flat rock with a amazing view of the mountains. We admired the view, drank some H20 and began our descent. It was faster going down but slightly more dangerous.

When we got to the creek on a particularly steep part I almost fell in.* Then when we were on the home stretch I was running and to slow down put my hands out to a tree to slow down when Juancho yelled noooooooooooooo. I saved myself just in time, it was a tree with spikes all over it! (pic?) Well we finally made it back alive but with our respective scratches. It felt great to take a shower and wash all the dirt off.

Then we ate a great spaghetti lunch and relaxed. After about an hour of relaxing we decided to play kick the can (my idea). We played for about 2 hours. It was brilliant. I could run so fast I was only caught about twice. It felt great to have energy. We'll see if I still have it next week.
Well we said goodbye and Me and Juancho got picked up by his parents to go to his house. We played Age of Mythology the Titans on his pc vs other pc right next to it. We went to sleep late and I got up at about ll:00am. We watched another movie after breakfast and then we went out for pizza lunch. It was a grande 1/2 campesino and 1/2 Hawaiian. Then we headed for our Apt.

I said thanks and went up to our apt. Right now fireworks are going off and dad is getting super exited with his camera. Well Anna is bugging me to watch a movie now so chao until next week. -Ian