Wednesday, August 5, 2009

There is a very good reason I have not posted anything in the last month - in fact, there are three of them - Jody, Jordan, Wyatt.
They arrived a month ago and I have not had a free moment ever since. But, man have we had fun! If we are not out doing something, which is not very often, one of them is on my computer, so blog time is severely limited. Jody has done a very good job of doing her own posting - from my computer on my time. So, if you want to see what we have been doing, go to watersadventure.blogspot.com.
To hit the highlights; we flew to LaPaz, where Jody and I and the kids immediately took a bus even higher - hard to believe as LaPaz is located at over 16,000 feet. Anyway we were taken even higher to the top of a mountain. From there Jody and I got on bicycles - first time I have been on a bike in probably 50 years. The kids rode in the support bus while we rode bikes down the "Most Dangerous Road in the World". Just type in those words on the internet and it will show you the road we rode down. You will get a better view than we did as it was snowing so hard we could hardly see the handlebars - I know I often us Onomatopoeia, but not this time. Worst snow storm at that time in years. Add that to biking down the MDRW!
We survived that, then stayed at the bottom of the mountains at an animal refuge - slept in a tree house, on the floor.
Last weekend we traveled to the Amazon basin and spent our time climbing up and then swinging down from platforms placed high in the trees. First from about 24 feet, then from 36 feet, then from 56 feet in the air (that is the height of a five story building) The jump was not the hard part - climbing up the rickety, wooden pegs nailed to the trees and then standing on a rotten 2x4 which was nailed between two trees with one nail in each end, while trying to climb onto an old rope was the scary part.
Of course between all of this we managed to fly to Cuzco, Peru and visited one of the Seven Wonders of the World, Machu Picchu. We also took tours of Cuzco and the Sacred Valley. Kids even got their first train ride - thru the Peruvian Andes. If you visit one place in your life, you have to travel to Machu - amazing does not adequately describe the place.
Yes, it has been an interesting month and I am worn out. I will download pictures as soon as I can get to my computer at the apt. I am at work right now and felt I had to write something, even without pictures.
Have patience

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