Hiking in the Rainforest

its only 2:30 today and i am the most tired i have ever been. we left on the wallaby to go on a hike this morning. this was not just a hike, we were mountain hiking. it was rainy (duh were in the rainforest) and insanely muddy. we have to hike through these huge puddles of water and mud, super slippery. people were falling and it was hysterical. but the steepness got pretty intense and was making me a little bit winded. we got close to the waterfall to where we could here it and our guide made us look down the rest of the time so we could all look up together and be like ohhh ahhhh. looking up....MOST AMAZING THING I HAVE EVER SEEN. we were on the top of the waterfall and it was about an 800 foot drop to the bottom of it. i wish i could post pictures on here (i cant upload them right now) so you all could see how amazing it was. we got to walk to the edge of the waterfall and take pictures like we were on top of the world. it was freaking beautiful. totally worth the getting attacked by leeches and my feet being raw from being so wet. you cant even see my tennis shoes ebcause the mud has caked them over. on the hike back we went way up the mountain because a lot of the hike there was downhill. I WAS DYING. i was winded. some girl stepped in the mud and lost her shoes..quite comical..but she didnt think so hahah. we got back to teh bus and it was stuck in the mud, of course. so everyone else was pushing the front while our driver was trying to get it out. i was video taping. duh. the term burning rubber is actually true. there was literally rubber burns on the mud from the tires. they were smoking too. people had leeches everywhere. who knew that they secreted some kind of something that makes your white blood cells not clot so you just keep bleeding like a fountain. people were bleeding everywhere. on the bus ride back there were leeches just crawling everywhere so we got out my pocket knife and started cutting them in half. you have to cut them perfectly at the head or else you make two leeches. they squirted blood...it was gross. the whole bus had blood on the floor at the end. we are paranoid now and think that everytime something moves that it is a leech. so our driver took us to this volcanic lake and we all jumped in in our clothes and he told us it was about 80 degrees in it...it was about 65. frozen. now we have free time for about 4 hours and then we get to go night canoeing and wildlife spotting. hopefully there arent leeches there. i have never seen so many. disgusting. the guides dog had them all over his paws and on his nose.

thunder up.