Rainforest Madness!

So we just got back from our three day excursion to the rainforest which was mad cool. On Monday, we went on a hike through the rainforest, saw some wild monkeys, and also had to cross a river five hundred feet up in the air in a car thingy suspended on wires. Cool but terrifying. The scariest part was when our guide had to cross the river to get the car: all he did was clip a rope to the wire, sit in it, and then pull himself one handed across the river.

Also on Monday we got to run around in this jungle park for adults (and a random four inch long ant dropped out of the sky and bit one of the adults we were with). Anyway, the park was really fun, there was a zip line that I somewhat crashed (because I didn´t understand the explanation of the breaks), and then swings. Which were terrifying. They were suspended from trees way way high, and you had to sit on this little piece of wood and then put the safety harness (read: piece of rope) under your arm pits. I only did the four meter one, but some kids in the group did an eighteen meter one. Imagine jumping off a five story building, sitting on a little piece of wood, in a park you know has never been inspected for safety. That´s why I only did the little one.

On Tuesday we ran around to some farms, which did not have animals and were therefore not nearly as cool as I had hoped. But we did go to the national ant drug police people, who told us in depth how to make cocaine. This is not joke.

Wednesday was cooler, we went to a monkey park, and I PET A SPIDER MONKEY. There were also parrots and things, and I made friends with the Australian volunteer dude who was keeping the monkeys from strangling the birds. Then we got to hike through more rainforest, down to a waterfall that I jumped in.

The best part of Wednesday was when a spider monkey (with a baby hanging onto it´s back) got onto the bus and proceeded to run around before stealing a guy´s sandwich and jumping out the window.

The story of the day is a play in two parts, taking place in our crappy hotel (thanks Rutgers) on Tuesday night.

Characters:
Tina--a particularly awesome invidual
Patricia--Tina´s overly patient roommate
Robin--Tina´s more than slightly intoxicated friend
Angry Hotel Lady
Rainforest Ants

Act I: In which Tina returns to her room at two in the morning to find hundreds of Rainforest Ants in her bed and all over her stuff. Tina promptly freaks out, cannot deal with said ants. Poor Patricia (who just wants to go to sleep) offers to take the ant bed but Tina cannot allow her, and makes Angry Hotel Lady de-ant the entire room.

Act II: In which Robin, in his state of drunkness, decides that as an american, he has to live up to Good Latin Guy standards, and freaks out because he does not want Tina and Patricia sleeping in the room with de-ant fumes. He insists that Tina and Patricia switch rooms with him and his roommate, which they eventually do.

Moral of the story: Tina likes the rainforest, but not when it crawls all over the sheets by the hundreds.