I had raft drill this morning, but it wasn’t anything more than: do you know how to find your liferaft? okay, well then you can leave now. After the drill, I went back to the room to call Amanda since she and I had agreed last night to get off the ship together. Johan had invited her to come with a group to climb up a waterfall, so we changed our nonexistent plans and joined the group. I had 5 minutes to get ready! I managed it though! It was a fun group: Martien (now my YPC), Amanda, Johan, Megan, Matt, Cassandra and a girl from the casino. Cassandra organized it, though we didn’t know too much about it beforehand, so she was upset when we found out it was 7 dollars to rent water shoes (required to climb the falls) from the place outside, instead of 3 dollars which is what she had previously been told. Turns out that the $3 rental was INSISDE the park area. It was nice though because crew got a discount on entrance to the falls: $6 instead of $20! We put our stuff in the locker and decided that we didn’t need a guide, so we made our way to the beach, the start of the falls, on our own.
We had a fun climb and quickly realized that we were smart not to get a guide. The guided climbing groups looked absolutely terrified as they held hands and stepped up the equivalent of stairs the whole way up. That would’ve been very boring for us. We were the adventurous ones, finding our own ways up, accidently stepping in holes and walking into rocks, and stopping to take pictures every so often (Matt had a waterproof camera). The climb itself really didn’t take that long, despite our frequent photo stops, what really took longest before we started was the locker-rental for our stuff, figuring out the guide situation, wandering around taking pictures of the falls before we climbed them, and just general confusion of trying to make sure we were all together. We’d told the taxi guide that we would only be two hours, so once we finished the climb, we didn’t have a whole lot of time to get our stuff and walk 15 minutes back to the parking lot.
We had the taxi drop us off in town (only a 5 minute walk from the ship), and we got some lunch (finally, it was after 2 by then!) and wifi before heading back to the ship.
I didn’t really do anything else interesting the rest of the day. Actually, all I did do was take a nap and watch movies.
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