The Park

We went to a place similar to The Wilderness Center to hike and eat with our two French family friends. We always like going with them, because it is much safer for us to venture out as a group. We found the trail and followed it through the woods, a very thick dense woods. About halfway through the trail it started to sprinkle, which soon turned into an all out downpour. The path we were taking was a mixture of a grass path in the open areas and a black sandy dirt path in the wooded areas. When the rain started, the black sandy dirt stuck to our shoes and for Ken and I who wore sandals, our feet. We would stand under trees during the really hard rains and them we would take a run for it when it slowed down. By the time we were almost through one of the French couples with a young baby took and run for it and we did the same. I had Tatiana's hand and Ken carried Kathrine and we ran to the shelter, which is when it stopped raining. In the shelter we wanted lunch, after a lot of motioning the server decided to show us what they serve for lunch, and from there we told them how many we wanted. The "carne" that they gave us came with a butter knife and it was the texture of rubber. I found the easiest way to cut up the girls meat was to pull it apart with my fingers. They started eating and thought it was very delicious. I also started eating and decided I was going to stick with rice and a yellow fried pattie. They gave us a drink, and I was thirsty, so I drank, stupid, because I got sick later that evening. To go home from the park we decided that we would take a bus, as the one French man said "a new experience", for all of us, maybe not the girls. The elevation of the park was quite a bit higher than that of Pasto so the whole way down the brakes on the bus were grinding metal on metal. We got off about a 1/2 mile from the Hotel and just as we got off the bus, it started to rain again. We stood under a shelter for a while then we decided we were cold and wet already and we would just take a run for it. Up in the room I put the girls into the tub and then I threw our shoes into the shower beside their bub since they were filthy. The next time I checked on the girls they were scrubbing their shoes in their bathtub. I added a little soap to their shoes that they were in there for and hour and forty-five minutes. Their shoes were sparkling by the time they were done. Needless to say they had to shower after their bath, which they also thought was great fun!