What a wonderful weekend! I was invited to a weekend away, to a place in the mountains called "Semai Pata". The scenery was gorgeous, the city pace was slow and the company was amazing. The first day, we headed on up to a collection of waterfalls. Besides them just being beautiful, the outing was made more memorable when I got to cross two things off of my bucket list. 1. Stand behind a waterfall. 2. Do something that terrifies me and not be terrified, ( I stood on top of the waterfall overlooking the 30 foot drop. Heights aren't my thing- my porch scares me.). Overcoming fear is always an exciting thing to me. We took pictures, and played in the water, then took more pictures. As we were heading back we crossed a stone path across the river. My foot slipped- which sent me tumbling into the water and my flip flop floating downstream towards the waterfall. As I was scrambling to save myself and my flipflop, the rest of the gang, not hearing the kafufal, kept walking leisurely down the path, unaware of my almost death. In the end, I saved my flip flop got to shore and caught up with the others before they noticed.
The next day, we spent some time at the Incan ruins. It was so cool thinking about they way these people lived. It makes me wonder. In a few hundred years, will people pay to come see ruins of our houses? What will they assume about us? While we were hiking, we met a dog. It was so excited to see us, it erupted in howls. He followed us the whole way, stopping with us when we took pictures and leading the way to the next lookout. We named him Rahshum and he was pretty cute. As we pulled away in the taxi, though, we looked out the window and saw poor rahshum, puppy dog eyes out, watching us leave. Then something crazy happened, he started chasing our taxi down the dirt, mountain road. He chased us, keeping up, for a good 10 minutes before he saw some other tourists and stopped to hang out with them. Thats one loyal dog.

Overall, I had an amazing weekend, getting to know new people, making new friends and getting to know already existing friends better. What a blessing.

God bless, all.