Amman and Beyond

Tuesday

The rain kept up all Monday night. Somewhere after a few games of beer pong, we decided that it would be fun to go down to the beach in the torrential downpour. Um, it was a good idea? The sea looked FIERCE, the waves were insane. We got pelted with rain and it stung like hell. Afterwards, we went back home and uh, stayed there.

It lightened up a bit on Tuesday, but returned full force later on. Luckily, we took advantage of the few hours of sprinkling by visiting the monkey and sloth sanctuary that Dawn volunteers for. There were monkeys jumping all over us and eating my hair! It was awesome. The sloths were absolutely adorable. We also studied some pit vipers, lots of weird snakes and frogs. After that, we headed back to home base and hung out for a while. Dawn, Dawn (there’s two of them!), Rayke and I all headed to Manzanillo (sp?) for a short hike to a place with an amazing view. The catch is that you have to cross this little rivine by foot before you can get to it. Because of the rain, it was much deeper than usual, but we went for it anyways. BAD IDEA. Dawn slipped and cut her foot up bad on some coral. I also got a cut on my foot. We turned around when we realized how bad Dawn’s cut was and got her to a doctor. In the meantime, we hung out at @ E’s (pronounced “at ease”), eating more amazing food (tomato quesadillas!) and drinking more amazing drinks (the pina coladas are made with FRESH coconut, right in front of you…and lots of rum). We headed back for the night when Dawn realized that the doctor (there’s only one in town) was out for the day. I was exhausted, so I headed upstairs and watched movies on Rayke’s computer until I fell asleep while the rest of the gang played a game called “mexican” that involves dice and keeping score…I don’t get it.