it's over before it began!

alright... so we leave tomorrow. can you believe that?! i certainly can't. it feels like we just got here! i have more than 500 pictures to go through from the last two days alone, so it might be a little while before i get them up and on the blog. but for now, a short recap.  the past couple of days have been filled with excursions! we spent 12 hours in a power boat on the largest river in south america, next to the amazon. visited amazing locations, on the bank of this river (which could be a lake, if you just dropped me in the middle of it, i could never tell the difference...) and on some of the thousands and thousands of islands that collect in it's curves and dot it's massive girth.

today we visited Kaieteur... falls.  found out today that Kaieteur means "Old Man Falls" so when you say Kaieteur falls, it's like saying "Old Man Falls Falls" so i will try to avoid doing that from now on.  it's been a legend in our family.  back in their hay day, my grandparents hiked up the "Oh My God" cliff to get to the top of this whopping 741ft monster, but this time we took a plane.  and what a plane ride! the photos i have are amazing. if you can imagine a sea... flying over the ocean, an endless expanse of blue stretching to the horizon... then replace the blue with green broccoli tops.  an endless sea of green trees. someone today said that Guyana is the "lungs of the world"... ha ha ha... i believe it!  so much green... so very very very VERY beautiful.

that's all for now. we will eat dinner at Rudy's place tonight, which will be a real treat. apparently he is a "champion" cook, and i look forward to spending some more time with him, our intrepid driver, before we leave tomorrow.

i'm doing wrap up interviews with everyone tonight too.  we haven't made time to talk this week, since it has been intense and full of old impressions, re-lived like first impressions, for everyone.  so i thought i would let my family take everything in properly and reflect once we felt more "on our way".  we'll see how that goes, but i'm confident we have so many amazing images... i just have to find the essence of the story in all of it!

until the next time...