Part of the Experience

Last Saturday, we had an excellent adventure.  It was one that actually brought me right back to Italy and a P-day spent in Campania. Well, last Saturday, we took a taxi out to Bullet Tree and met up with our friend, Rosi.  Rosi invited us to go to the river to go swimming with her.  We got to her house and she asked us if we wanted to go for a walk to the ranch.  It was super fun walking up to the ranch.  We walked over to the ranch.  They chopped up some coconuts and gave them to us to drink the water inside.  We then walked on and they pulled out two roosters so that they could fight.  That was actually a bit funny--one of them was trying to tire the other by running around in crazy circles.  We didn't let them fight too much.  We got to try strange fruits.  There was one that was super hard and difficult to eat.  It had a shell, and once I FINALLY broke through, it was just sticky and a little bland.

As we were leaving, they pointed out another fruit that none of us had even heard of.  Then, Rosi's brother climbed right up the tree and threw a bunch down at us.  We had to wait a few days, but they taste like sweet potatoes.  We then headed back to Rosi's, and her mom had made all of us BBQ, tortillas, and cole slaw.  They also made some fruit juice that I was a bit nervous about.  It had homemade ice cubes in it. 

We then went walking down to the river to jump in.  I was surprised by how strong the current was.  We jumped out, went upstream a little and could swim without any problems.  We found a big log and jumped in.  We may have pushed Rosi in.  I also should have been more concerned when Rosi said that her sister couldn't swim in the river because she gets sick when she swims for a long time.

  It could have been the river, or the ice cubes.  It only lasted a day, and then I felt really bad for Erin who spent most of last week home with food poisoning. 

Still, it was a lot of fun, and I thoroughly enjoyed spending the day with Rosi and her family.  I felt honored to be there, and it was worth getting sick. 

"It's all part of the experience!"