One Saturday, some of the teachers at the school (Shannon the 1st grade teacher, and her husband Dexter the 4th grade teacher) drove us out near Antigua to climb El Pilar. It is a beautiful tropical mountain setting with a natural spring. They filter out the water and there are a series of pools at the entrance that you can swim in.
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| The Virgin Mary (Catholic country) |
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| Dexter! |
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| Beautiful roots |
At the beginning of the hike its all stairs. My asthma was acting up and I felt like a bit of a pansy. The stairs were brutal though, everyone was breathing heavy. Although Dexter had gone ahead because he likes to run and us girls weren't feeling that.
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| Fun vines hanging down from trees. |
LANDSLIDE!! It has been raining been raining here like crazy! (Its rainy season, soon to turn into windy season) The rain creates landslides all over and apparently the side of this hill had fallen. It was scary because they mine the side of the hill right below this landslide area and its a pretty sheer drop.
Dexter left us a message in the rocks.
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| Sheer drop. |
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| I was worried. |
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| Mountain climber extraordinaire! |
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| haha Dexters message once we got over! |
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