Today we went to the caves. They are only about 35 miles away. It took us almost 4 hours to get there. Yes, 4 hours. It was an amazing ride! The road (trail) is very bumpy and rutty and slippery. It was a blast. Jasmine had a little problem with motion sickness on the way there, but on the way back she had no problems- and she thought it was great. We got to the caves at about 11:30 and had a quick picnic lunch. Then we went in the caves. It was breathtaking. No one else was around, it was just our little group. These pictures don't do it justice, but at least you can get an idea. There was a room in there that had thousands of bats- it was really weird to watch them and hear them for awhile. I wish we would have had more time to explore, but Rich had more suprises planned for the day. We went to the top of an amazing waterfall that you can swim under, then we went swimming. As we were getting our shoes and socks off, we saw a family of lemurs staring at us from a nearby tree. Zakary and Jasmine got to touch one's tail- they were so close.
They didn't like the sound of Brad's laugh- they all started grunting at him. It was hilarious. We went swimming and then piled back in the Prado for the ride back. It was fun. We saw a rainbow, tons of zebus, and listened to tunes on Rich's IPod. ("The Lion Sleeps Tonight" and "He's Alive and I'm Forgiven" were a couple of my favorites) I'm making it a quick one today, as I am a little fuzzy after all that bouncing around!!
I hope everybody is having a great week. We miss you, but we definately know that we are supposed to be here right now.
BTW - it is very difficult to get anything to load and work on the internet, so I am going to try to send my blogs when it might work, but that is never a certainty here.
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