More on the jungle adventure

Ok I really need to finish up this story. It happened a long time ago. I'll just go with highlights and spare you all the details.

Seeing pink river dolphins or parts of them coming out of the black water

Hiking through one of the few parts of the jungle that wasn't flooded where our gide showed us very useful things like how to take the fiber out of certain kind of plant to make bracelets, how to climb a tree with a vine and which plant's leaves can be used as patches on clothing

Eating lemon ants! (Do I have ants stuck in my teeth?)

Watching the sunset... Jungle sunsets are a close rival to beach sunsets

Seeing a the glowing red eyes of a giant caiman in the river

Listening to all the sounds of the jungle at night

Watching and "helping" an indigenous woman make bread from yuca

Buying cool necklaces made out of jungle seeds

Watching the indigenous kids using a tree as a diving board into the river

Fishing for pirhanas - unsucessful but fun except the part about having to put raw meat on a hook, I used a leaf to protect myself

Celebrating my birthday in the jungle with my friends!!!

Bird watching early in the morning - Rooster crows Diego: Look! Macaws! Me: Diego,that was a rooster... Ooooh those red macaws flying over the trees

Getting super super super dirty on the bus ride back to Lago Agrio like white shirts turned brown and black hair turned whitish

Arriving back in Quito early enough to get almost a full nights sleep...

Before I forget and have to go to class, a HUGE thank you to everyone who sent me birthday cards. They all came the Thursday after my birthday. What load!!!