“We get to go to a waterfall?” Ezra asks for the tenth time that day. “Yes Ezra. Mrs. Gabell and her family are taking us. Now don’t ask again please. Dad is trying to drive.”
Mrs. Gabell has one child who is four years old. He is really cute. The first time we met at his school he was really shy. But when we got to his house he got his legos out and let Elisha and Ezra play with them and then rode his scooter around and squirted ants with a water gun.
Well anyway, they came to our hotel at ten or so with a “taxi”. Actually it was a pickup truck with a hood and seats in the back.
We all piled in the back with one of the dads in the front and took off.
It was a thirty minute drive through the country to get to the falls. Elisha, Ezra and the little boy stuck their heads out of the windows while the grownups talked. We passed through rice paddy fields and took lots of sharp turns where we were all thrown about before the car came to a complete stop. A little dizzy I stepped out into the hot, thick air. I had not realized it was this hot till we stopped and the wind of the moving car had quit. On top of all that, the smell of the food stalls that surrounded us was pretty bad.
First we got the food for the picnic that we were going to have at the falls.
“What do you want Ezra?” Mom asked. “Chips!” he answered.
“No!”
“Okay, mmmm,” Ez stalled.
“Come on Ezra, we don’t have all day!” Dad said.
“Pork!!!!”
“Okay, what about you Gabe?”
“Two fish kabobs please” I smiled.
“Two? Are you sure?” Mom asked.
What are fish kabobs? Fish on a stick. Grilled to perfection and then filled with a leaf that I don’t recognize but that tastes like lemon. We call it lemon leaf.Finally Ezra led the charge to the water.We came to a crossroad to find Ezra standing there with a puzzled look on his face. “Don’t worry! I know the way! Hehe, maybe,” said Ezra
“ I do!!” came a small voice as the little boy came running up to take the lead. Ezra gave it up, reluctantly.
We were all laughing and Ezra was trying to act like he had no idea why we were laughing when I felt a drop on my arm and I yelled, “Incoming!!!” And it started to rain buckets.
When it rains here it soaks everything in seconds. Including clothing, food, people, and anything else out side. Usually it is gone in minutes but sometimes it goes for days on end. With a few seconds of sun that makes you go out and about before it soaks you and everything else again.
We ran to the nearest cover and ate our lunch before it got super wet. It was a good lunch. After a bit the rain stopped and the sun came out and chased the clouds away. We decided to swim at the falls we were at for a while just in case it rained again.
Ezra and I dared to cross the fast flowing water to where we could climb up the slippery rocks to get to a better swimming area. The water was just as shallow (to my belly) but was right next to a waterfall with an even harder climbing spot and a little water ride. First we climbed up to the top of the waterfall which must have been forty feet or so, and then we slid back down into the the water and swam.
I found that I could climb to the middle of the bottom of the waterfall, where there was a rock that split the water in half and only sprayed you a bit, and jump to the part where there was a really strong current that pulled me to a little fall. I could slide down that and then get back out and go again. At the part where we walked to the middle it was very shallow, but if we got pushed off course then we’d come to a drop off and would have one more chance to grab a rock that was under water before being swept down the pool and into the shallow area again.
We played for at least three hours before we were called to go. I asked Mom if I could go see a little hole that I had just found and she said okay so I started off and I was just thinking to myself that I had not fallen all day when, thunk, I found myself lying on the rock. When I got up again and saw my little hole and came back to get my shoes on I told Ezra and he said “Well, you know the saying! Pride comes before the fall!” And he went of in a flash. I think he had slipped and fallen three or four times that day himself!
We got in the pickup truck and on our way home I fell to sleep on my moms lap. The boys had their heads out the window again and everything was perfect. It did not rain again that day until we had gotten home.
Except for riding the elephants it was one of the best days so far.
Cool! Wish I could have been there!
it was cool
it was cool!
So, even though it rained really hard, there wasn’t a flash flood?
no