Even though I am physically exhausted, and my legs are sore, it's all because I had a really great weekend!
Early this past week, we made plans to climb the mountain on Friday. So, when Friday came around, plans were set to start our climb around 3:00. After everyone finally arrived around 3:40, we set out. In all it was me, 2 of my roommates, 2 guys from Australia, 2 guys from the States, and another girl from the States. So we had quite a group! Two of the guys in our group had climbed the mountain before, so supposedly knew what they were doing, and we just went with them, and listened to what they said. We took 2 taxis closer towards the mountain, where you can catch a trail. The first sign we saw leading to the trail was a yellow caution sign with a picture of a bear, saying "protegelo," which pretty much means protect against it..So, we continued, hoping we would not see a bear. As we started to climb the hill, I slowly realized that the whole way was going to be uphill...and it was. 2 hours of hiking uphill. And the path was very bumpy and hard to walk on, almost as if someone had just poured a bunch of cement to make a path, and over the years, it had just broken up and made it just like walking on rocks. So even though we were absolutely exhausted, breathing heavy, and really sweaty, we kept going and made it halfway in 2 hours. At the half way point, was a structure that reminded me of a parking ramp, constructed to the side of the mountain. So, we walked out onto here, and sat on the edge, caught our breath and looked at the awesome view of the city. It was quite amazing. We even went a little further and found a cave, which we explored a little until we heard rocks moving around (it ended up being little kids throwing rocks into the cave from a hole above, but it could have been that bear!). So we started to hike down, and before we knew it it was getting dark. This was nice, because the view was absolutely amazing once the lights of the city started to turn on, but it was really hard to hike down on the crappy trail when your depth perception was kind of taken away. But, we made it down unharmed, took our taxis back to our houses, and proceeded to shower, eat a lot, and then lay around.
On Saturday, 2 of my room mates and I and another friend woke up early to go to the Grutas de Garcia, which are caves about 1.5 hours away from campus. We went with a school group, so it was a whole bus load going. When we finally got to the caves, it was absolutely amazing. The Grutas de Garcia are these huge caves formed 50-60 million years ago, and there are stalagmites and stalagtites everywhere. It was really beautiful. After, we had about 45 minutes before the bus left, so we got some delicious burritos and churros, and then took the ride back. Later that night, I hung out with my room mate and 2 of her friends from church. The one guy that took us out was from Mexico, so he took us to a lookout place, where I again got a great view of the city at night, except this time it was a full 360. After, we went more downtown, and walked down by an artificial river. We met 2 of his friends for a late dinner/snack at a pizza place. It was a really great night...everyone was really friendly, and we spoke Spanish the whole time, which was really great.
Tonight we are going to see another play put on by our school in Spanish. It should be a lot of fun. I'm coming to realize that I really prefer my weekends without homework. :D
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