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Day Two...Monday the 15th.



Okay people...my camera has died. Nobody brought the battery charger. Adriel got one pic on hers (which we have a cable for) Here it is...Pics form Jess are on their way!


Look! We come in peace. I won't make any racist comments here!


Oh how we suffered! Mountains everywhere!


Oh My! Look at how high I am! doesn't everyone like my jacket? And the braids look?


Poor Emilie just climbed a mountain. She looks as though she's going to puke! IT WAS HER IDEA TO BUSHWHACK!


When we reached the park, we really got in touch with our souls through meditation.


Then we realized how funny it was that we were sitting in a rock crevice with our eyes closed.


Later I got my leg caugh behind the log that Ash's on and the tree...ooooow! ow ow ow ow! bruises!


We wanted a pic of everyone looking pooped after the hike. Too many smiles here!


Ooh! See the flames! My fingers got burned. This fire was huge.


Poke those embers...

Here are our journal entries for today:

Adriel: I will skip the breakfast part because jess will you tell you that part but I wil tell you about the great adventure we had later on in the day. So emilie being her, decided she wanted to go up the hill that she was complainling about last time she came up. And like last time half way started to whin becasue we mad her climb the cliff. After the cliff we had to bushwack ourselves through the foresst to get to a beach. We all enjoyed our nice little break were we ate our lunch. After being bored of the beach we headed back. Em, Jess And I wanted to take the road back but shona, and ash wanted to take the buchwacking way back. And like the cliff emilie agreed, then like 10 min. later the whinning began. So with ashley able to walk forever with out getting tired she speed ahead. So far she wasn't in shouting range. The rest of us came to a fork in the trail and weren't quite sure if ashley was smart enouhg to take the right one. She was. We rested up, and started are desenct around the cliff. But shona being shona decided she wanted to take a route we hadn't been on before. "Trust me it's a safer route" shona said. I don't know why but we thought we should follow. She ended turining around like 5 times before we came to our senses and decided to come down the way we came. This was only a result of me almost falling down the mountian. We were bushwaking thorugh some trees when i lost my grip and slipped to the edge of the mountain. I was able to garb a hold of something and thats when emilie really freaked. Everyone exceptd shona turned around and went down the way we came up. On our trek down the cliff we heard shona yelling something but we couldn't hear. All we could hear was a murrmurr and then a crash scream crash "guys i made it down i jumped" So we all manged to get back in one peice.

Ashley: I am so fast! HOllY GuAKa MolIE!!
twaz a fun time
:)YUpYUP..let me start frome the BEgiNING ..Duhh DUmmm DUMmmm ..some intro music..no?.."Its a BeUtIfllle mooORrrning ..yeahhh"..n/m..woke up in the morrning with Shona ..YELLINg! "ARE YOU GUYS SLEEPING?!" hahah! Um I am no docter.. but I don't that is possible with Shona HAHA!(jk)..Fast forward!(du du du du- the time worp waves) hahah OK so here we have ze bunch of us, cHilLing on Ze rocks!(russisan accent)...ahead of up a 3 headed seal(insider)..chilling as well...to my right Shona cutting the bread with a knife..(not a good idea)..and finally to my left the iNfEmouSe SHIBA (aka the D-O-G), filling the air with the fresh aroma of dead beach..MMMmmm yummy HAHAH!> then we have ourselevs an AwEsOme meal followed by a episode of meddintation in ze rocks...with Ying and Yang ( aka Shona and "I")ahah. >Fast forward!!( dont worrie.. your not missing anything, Emilie has got you back)>>> treking back "99 boltes of beer on the wall!": NOW we were working the trail ohh yeah--keeping the pase hahah..wait..?..no ones behide me LOL!..just me a Sheba HAHA...wait!..I hear the frogs Ahaha!!...MOvving right allong...NOW WE ARE MAKEING THE TRECK OF DOOOMMmmm!!!! LOL...aka SHONAS TRAIL!! LOL...YUpYUP we had ourselfes a little Clif Hanger eppisode LOL! Very drEMAtic, there was..Shonna leading us off clifs,....OOps..Adriel goes off with her HAHA!! Well considering the SCuAking and SqeeliNg comming from Shonas way down..., us 'SERVIVORS'( including Adriel)took the..how you say...the SANE way down! HAhah...FAST FORWARD!!...made it downt the hill phyco HILL/MOUNTAIN/DIRT PILE safely...yet at the bottom Emilie manages to trip on a dirt patch,& Shona manages to bruse & pin her leg inbetween two logs HAHA (we all had a part in the pinnage..oops my bad AHah). OKIE DOKIE Finnal fast forward hah...i AM SATICFIED I HAVE not lost in spoons >>i am enlighted of "THE SOUND OF MUSIC"...i have fresh pie in me bellY!! (fat bastard) hahah..k my ESL essay is donE! HAHAH over and OUT!

Emilie: Ok, so the real title of this page should be: "Day Two...at boot camp!! The gimps come limping home." Honestly between climbing cliffs, falling of them, lime disease and general exhaustion it's a miracle we all survived.
It started off well enough. We even found the real trail to Dionisio and skipped the swamp altogther. It was a little challenging for those of us who aren't in great shape but we all kept up. We were even feeling adventurous enough to attempt a climb up the cliff for old times sake. Dionisio was nice too. A little windy and cloudy but we had a great picnic. Then on the way back it all fell apart. It was all uphill and we were tired and soon Ashley had left us all behind. But we found her and we all stopped for a break on top of a huge hill. Then we had to find a way down. Well with Shona as our elected leader we soon found ourselves in some trouble. We were faced with two choices: Down through the green bushes or through the thick, dead trees. I choice trees because the other way seemed steeper and I suffer from acute ackerophobia. Well the trees was a mistake. There were so thick we struggled through behind shona, who then led us out of the trees onto a clear ledge with a sheer drop into a rock quarry far below. Well Adriel who was just ahead of me slipped on some branches and down she went. I honestly thought she was going to die and her life flashed before my eye's. She managed to grab onto a branch tho and we made our way back up, complaining to shona all the way ("Why did you take us down there? Where did you think you were going?" "What? You guys were following me? I was just enjoying the view."). Anyways, we left shona sitting on the ledge only to here "blah blah cliff muffle muffle" crash, snap, clunk. "I'm down! I'm down!" Oh good. What a relief. We were so worried. Now we are stuck on the top of the hill. We failed to find a trail and instead ended up going back down the way we came. Much to my dismay. but in the end we made it. A little shaken and tired (and splintered.) Soon Shona's mom came to pick us up, although not before the fence we were sitting on collapsed and trapped Shona's knee between to logs. Good fun.

Jess: So, today I woke up to Shona jumping on my air mattress and yelling "WAKE UP WAKE UP WE HAVE EGGS!!!" We managed to make it through breakfast, and rode down to the trail where the day started to go very very wrong. First, we had to climb up a mountain and then bush-wacked our way to a beach with Shona yelling warnings about ticks. We ate lunch at the beach and Shona's dog rolled in a dead seal. She smelled really bad so we were throwing sticks into the ocean in hope that she would follow them. That is when I got by horrible painful gigantic splinter. We started back and instead of following the road like we should have, Shona and Ashley decided to go through the "trail" So, we bush-wacked our way back, lost Ashley along the way and then couldn't find the trail back. Shona jumped off the cliff to the road, but the rest of us found the mountain we climbed up before and climbed down. But not before Adriel nearly DIED falling off the cliff. We were picked up and relaxed at the cabin because we were all exhausted. That is all


Shona: Dear me! It's only 4:52, and I have so much to write already! I just wanted a picture of the view...don't listen to Emilie. SHE's MAD! They're all playing spoons downstairs! Em and I have devised a strategy for beating everyone...well I beat everyone, she always has a "spoo_".
Don't ask how it's possible to get lost on the same hike that we got last on last time, but we managed it. I am an expert tree shimmier. (is that a word?) My leg is violet because it got crushed between a couple of logs that we were posing on. Jess wants to write now...I'll be back!
I'm back! Emilie and Jess are practicing downstairs...how sweet. On the hike today we sung 99 Bottles of Beer ALL THE WAY THROUGH! I can't recall having done that before. I kept my energy up all the way through :) and others drifted in and out. We did prutty drunken walks/dances for the last few verses. My favourite verse is "39 bottles of beer on the wall..."
Yesterday our walk song was "Hole in My Bucket". I got to be a 'Henry'. We belted out the last verse with GUSTO! "but there's a HOLE in my bucket dear Liza!" muahaha. 2 dogs came out of two seprate houses to investigate our singing. We must be quite something!

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