I hope everyone had a great Holiday season and a fun New Years Eve! 

Today was quite possibly the neatest and most terrifying day of my lifetime.  So we signed up for this outdoor activities day thing, which includes hiking, trecking canyoning and repelling, and something about waterfalls.   Now I didnt even know what half of those things entailed but boy did I find out really quick.  He starts by putting us in these harnesses people use for climbing and then  we go on this this really intense walk up a steep hill in the forest.  Now both Annie and our inexhaustable guide are in way better shape than me (but even he was sweating at the top) so im dying and asking them to stop like twice but eventually we made it to the top of this thing,  where we see the reason for those harnesses, which are those ziplines going from a tree at the top to one fairly far away.  Now they explain everything but its all in Spanish so im just hoping im not going to die. We were really high too, the pictures are amazing.  The ziplines end up bieng totally fun and we go through about 3 of them before getting to the platform for repelling.  So its just baiscailly tying a rope to your harness, placing your hands on it and letting go slightly to lower yourself down.  So it sounds easy, but putting all your weight on that thing and defying all millions of years of evolution telling you to keep your feet on nice solid ground is difficult. We were doing the hard kind too, with no place to put our feet for balence as Annie is used to from her climbing experience.  But I get to the bottom in one piece and exhilerated.
So at this point we go back to the resort area to break for a bit, and because our guide has to set up some stuff for the next part of our adventures.  Its worth mentioning that we are the ONLY people there, it was billed as a group tour but, like yesterday, there was no one else.  We got our guide and 2 other guys helping us the entire time. While were waiting for the guy we listen to some music, they set up some hammocks for us, and we relax for awhile.  Finally the guide comes back and all 5 of us climb into this sketchy looking toyota and set off for the next part of our adventures.
We go back through town, then off road, like way off road.  We cross 2 rivers, shallow ones, in the car of course.  Its a really hot day and im really looking forward to swimming in the advertised waterfall.  The road starts to get steeper and the road is mostly rock at this point.  So on par with our amazing luck for transportation this trip, the truck overheats, it makes this horrible noise and steam comes out of the engine.  Just great.  The guys try to put some cold water in to cool it down, but no dice, so one guy stays with the car while me annie and our guide continue the next 1/4 mile or so on foot. It was really hot, and I had to take a break or too but we made it.  It gets alot cooler when we get into the forest however and when we reach the river we get to wash off.  When we set off, we follow the river itself, walking, swimming, trying to avoid rocks...  not succeeding(the bruises are proving that).  This was very fun in jeans and I was very loathe to ruin my hiking boots but yah I did it.  After another ten minutes or so we reach the waterfall.  Theres a little one at first, 20 feet or so high and we just climb down that one with a rope and our hands.  Then we can see the big waterfall, and, just wow, its high. I was so glad im not scared of heights because it was giving me total vertigo. Theres no way to get down but over, doing the repelling thing.  We get in the gear again and I nervously watch annie climb down.  Im biting my lip untill we get the tugging on the rope that means shes down ok.  Then its my turn.  Great.  I get over the side and go really slow and just am praying not to freak out, this thing is literelly 200 feet high.  I do ok until I reach the first overhang where I lose my footing and am hanging by the repell rope, this would be fine, I wont fall or anything, but for the fact that my hand is stuck between my climbing rope and the rocks.  For about a minute im calling up to the guide, Thank God i was close and he did speak a bit of english, it took a lot of time trying to make him understand that i was really and truly stuck.  After the longest minute of my life he gives the rope some slack and I can pull my hand free.  The rest of the waterfall is pretty easy after that, once I get the hang of it and learn to watch my left hand.  
We eat lunch and I stop shaking, then go on to canyoning.  This is apparently following the river downhill as it winds through rocks trees pools and stuff.  I do good, but the guides go really fast, so I slipped on some slippery rocks and came down really hard on my  knee.  We stop for a second but I can still walk on it so we go on.  There are a few really tricky points, I slip a couple more times, but mostly cus i was over scared of the slippery rocks. We make it back to the road and the truck still didnt work! In a stroke of luck, Annie and the guide try pushing it backwards to see if that will kick start it, and it does. Marcello, the guide, said he need a lucky woman just like Annie, I knew he´d been flirting with her all day. It was cute.   
We went back to the resort area and had tea and snacks which were very good especcially after all that exercise. Marcello flirted a bit more and wanted us to stay longer but we needed to catch a bus to Cochabumba so we had to go.  
More adventures at the bus station where we couldnt find tickets anywhere so Annie had to buy them from a scalper, but we checked and they were legitimate.  It was chaos catching the bus, and confusion but we got on ok. Yah I slept great on the bus that night.