Well, we have done the calculations and we are down from 15 weeks to 2. It is hard to be sad about coming home, seeing everyone and celebrating Christmas. Especially when we have been seeing Christmas decorations since when we arrived in September due to the lack of Thanksgiving and Halloween down here. Our style of living- roughly deciding on a place to go and going, unpacking, adventuring, meeting people, seeking out where the 5 cent cookies are, packing, and leaving people who we then sometimes will see later has been a lively twirl of time. Luckily we are just letting this go for a month and then it will all begin again in a similar manner in Southeast Asia, which makes coming home pretty easy in the end.

On another note... A few days ago we spent the day swinging through the jungle, thanks to Alan! It was a very professional canopy tour in which we had 4 guides for the two of us and one of them acted like the paparazzi the whole time which took the first 30 pictures to get used to.

By the start of the safety reassurance session and guidelines I had a smirk on my face and my eyes were about to roll. I was halted when I tried to put on the harness by myself. And with the instructions that were all about breaking, keeping perfect form, and no twirling because you might hit a tree I couldn´t help thinking ¨fuck this, I will spin if I want to!¨ ¨common do I really have to break?!¨ and ¨guys, guys, the biner in your safety demo is cross-loaded!¨ But, once on the canopy this was all clearly worth putting up with. Also, after we passed the only exit point at tree 6, twirling and last minute hazardous breaking began and never seemed to be a problem. Beyond this, I send you to the pictures that can show you much more than I can describe!