madamas

i was in the jungle for the weekend! that was some amazingly fun shit. a hike up in the darkness of night with only a couple flashlights. clear starry skies and cool breezes with only the freshest air. another hike through the jungle to one waterfall with an awesome blue pool. that was the nicest to bathe in but way too cold and we had to cut short our swimming around drunk because we were famished. in the night we played cards and i made the mistake of admitting my atheist views to a roomful of catholics... that conversation went on for hours and boy was i surrounded. intense opinions swirling around, no one there was prepared to counter my arguments tho...
fortunately, a night's sleep later it was time for the next hike, this time much shorter, to another much better waterfall. we could climb this one and jump off into the pool, and of course hit our asses on the bed as it was too shallow. standing underneath the falls was exhilarating to say the least. didn't see much fauna except for snakes and frogs and some maybe crayfish. back at the house we ate some wild meat (lappe) that dougla (guy that tends the house in the jungle) hunted for us. in the process of trying to cook one of the guys got the gallon bottle of gasoline too near the wood stove and it caught and the resulting conflagration would have burned the house down if i didn't hit the bottle away with our hiking sticks and the boys didn't get the bucket brigade going so quickly... once the fire was put out the laughter at the incredulity of it all began. and we passed the evening relaxing again. so lots of water, bush, fire, hiking and even some intellectual conversation up in there. all in all a GREAT weekend.