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hello! time for a full acount of my trip: we got up at 7 am instead of 6:30 so we had to hurry much faster if we wanted to be able to stop and get breackfast. we did manage it though. then we borded the bus. i felt weird going on b/c all the guys were staring at me for i was the only girl that was at least within a year of their ages, maybe two for some. there was one more girl on the bus but she was little, about 10 i'd say, and her mom. the other two women were in the car following with a couple more dad's, including mine. at first i had to ride by my brother nathan o_0 but then i took another guys seat after we stopped for lunch and he agreed to sit by him instead of making me again. yay! ^_^ so then i was sitting in front og my brother and the only other guy not related to me that i knew on the trip (brian) and a really, REALLY, annoying guy (daniel) beside me. we drove for about 4 hours from the begining to the fort where we stopped before the cavern and got out to stretch and explore. they had the fort set up like it was back then with the people dressed up and telling us stuff. then the british people came out and shoot off a few cannons. ^_^ we were standing as close as we could get to being in front of them and falling down dead after they shot. some of the older guys were tackling each other and rollnig down the hill killing each other. it was funny to watch. ^_^ then we piled back onto the bus and drove the rest of the way to the cavern, which was the lost sea caverns. yep, that's what is was called. i was trying to get off but u know how it is on buses, everyone jus plies off and don't let the people into the isle so they can get off. no one would let me off, so finaly this one guy, charlie, stopped right in front of me, smiled, and said hi. i expected him to let me go out in front of him but he kept walking! that made me really mad. finaly brain's dad let me out in front of him. once outside, we had to wait in the COLD for over 30 minutes for them to get our dinner ready and by the time it was done, the fries were cold and stuff. while we waited, the bus driver took off. luckily we had all gotten our stuff off of the bus. hopefully everyone got off everything they needed. i left my cd's and fun stuff on the bus, but they weren't allowed in the cave anyway. after we got our food i went to the bathroom and left my food on the table by my brothers austin and nathan, and my dad, austin's friend brian, and two guys who sat with us. when i got back the one named alex put like five fries back on my plate, and said that the other one, daniel had taken them and he got them back. yeah... after that we got all of our stuff from the grass and headed up the
BIG hill that was rocky and hard to walk on while carrying our stuff and went to the entrance to the cave. we had to go down 132 steps, (some one counted ^_^) and get this: the whole ground and walls and steps and everything in the cave was just mud and the steps were carved out of the mud. they were wet and slippery and i got my hands all muddy just from making it down the stairs alive! i had to hang onto the wall a lost b/c that stairs were misshapen and some were very small and others were very big. when we all made it to the bottem, we got into our 3 different groups that we had divided into while still outside. we put our stuff on tarps and plastic and stuff then followed our separate guides. it was so cool! ^_^ the first thing we did was walk sharply downhill on smooth ground that everyone was sliding all around on and we did it about a foot away from a 90 foot deep pit. it had a wire fence around it, but the guide warned us not to touch it b/c it would callaspe and we would fall... o_0 very reassuring... but we all made it past and got to our first narrow passage. it was a fairly easy one compared to others we went on later. what we did was start to go down some carved into mud stairs and then into a crack that we had to inch along inside with our backs against one side of the wall and ot stomachs against the other. yes, it was that small. my dad happens to be a little big and had to go over the top! i think that would've been a lot harder to do... then when we came out, we were back at our campsite, the place where we had started. we went down another trail to our glass bottom boat. we all climbed aboard and right as soon as we got in, a HUGE fish started leaping out of the water around us. we started moving and found a spot where like 20+ fish were circling our boat. it's b/c the guides and stuff feed the fish b/c there is no natural food for them in the lake. in the effort to get to the food first, they were thrashing around and splashing us all in the faces. one got me right in the eye! we got off the boat and went to another crawl. this one was really fun. we went to a spot that was VERY low. and i mean VERY. like a bit over a foot from the floor to the ceiling. there was no point in going through it b/c it came out pretty much where we went in, but i did b/c it was lots of fun. what u did was lay down up on the ledge. (yes, u had to climb up then lay in the mud...) then u start to just roll down. yep. that's it. u just roll. the guide guy did everything before us. he ran up the hill and lept onto the ledge where he then kept going until he shot of the other side which ur supposed to stop and sit sorta upright and then jump down. he kept going, shot straight off, and then slammed right into the wall at the bottom of the drop. he said we would get up 'as soon as the room stopped spinning...' yeah... i went rather slow b/c there were spots that came down even lower than others and i didn't want to bash my head. i made it through w/o inccodent. i had a secret way of making sure i would fit through everything though... i made sure someone bigger than me went in front of me. then if they make it, i'll be able to make it. o yeah! ^_^ sounds like a plan! o! there was another one where we climbed up onto a ledge that we had to help boost some of the little kids over b/c they were too small, and when u got over, u had to lay flat on ur stomach and pull urself along with ur hands or push with ur feet until u made it to a spot where u had just enough room to turn around so u could get ur feet down before u went down the drop at the end. (they often ended with jumps to the bottom) the worst one according to the guide dude was called the 'MEAT GRINDER!!!' scary right? what u did was get down on ur hands and knees and crawl until u had to switch onto ur butt so u could slide down the muddy hill and not fall on ur face. u had to not slide too far or u would fall down a dark hole that we were unsure of where it led to. so after u stopped u had to turn and inch through a narrow passage where both ur back and stomach r scraping the walls and the had to turn to go uphill where u had to crawl on ur side! that was the hardest one right there: the side one. i did it on my right side, so i scraped my right elbow the most. after that, u had to go almost straight up and out to the top and level safe ground. that was the hardest one. on another one though u had to inch along standing in between two narrow rocks and then u had to hoist urself over a place where two rocks came together so if u were reeeally small, u could squeeze ur legs between the two rocks, but i'm not that small so i had to go over. then u go around the side and make it to the top where the others are waiting. o! ...again. i got to go on one more than a lot of people! whoo! it was called the black cat and our guide had never been there, so he was scaring us by saying he had never been down it and when we found what might be it, he had to go down first to see if it was right and make sure of where it led too. so, it was me, 3 guys smaller than me, so i was just going to have to try and hope i wouldn't get stuck... ^_~ the two adults who tried didn't even consider going. they went around that cheap easy way to meet us at the top. we had to do a belly crawl the whole way up, face first. it started going down face first so it was hard, but then we started going up again so it got better. it was loads of fun though! ^_^ after that he took us back to our camp place where i helped my dad spread out our bed which was an air matress with our sleeping bags laid out on them with all of it on a plastic tarp with our baggage around the edges. we went to sleep. it was funny though, th girls trying to change out of our TOTALY MUD COVERED CLOTHES while being totaly surrounded by like a hundred guys. (not only our group was there) we ended up getting behind an extra tarp we brought and holding it up for each other to change behind. my white shoes turned a dark brown though! <_> they are my only shoes too... i guess i'll have to see if my basketball shoes still fit. ten we climbed into our sleeping bags and tried to sleep. i passed the time by watching some guys from our group/on the bus with us wrestling each other in sleeping bags, on the tarp. they were really funny. another big group of guys were gathered around a flashlight playing cards. we had to get up and 6:30 and be out of the cave by like 7 i think... then we had another crappy tasting breakfast provided by the cave's outside resteraunt and waited outside for the bus. when it came we loaded on and headed home. about the movies, we forgot to bring monty python, so we ended up watching 2 indian vs. other people movies and then the first and second lord of the rings, followed by holes. then time not taken up was spent listening to cds and watching the guys mess with each other. brian fell asleep so anotherguy tried to stick a candy wrapper up his nose, but another guy poked him hard on the head so he woke up before it was done. all in all the trip rocked! ya'll need to go do it! ...but be sure to keep warm, i got a really bad cold from it... well, i get to go about an hour late to school tomorow, my argument on y: we didn't get to sleep in at all this week/weekend. well, it worked! ^_^ so, i'll talk to ya'll tomorrow! bye! and i can't believe u made it to the bottom of my post... o_0
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