chasing waterfalls

I'm suddenly so sad that Lisa Lefteye Lopez died.
It was in the Caribbean wasn't it??
anyway. enough sadness around here.

I went with Amber and Stephanie to Annandale Falls last week.  Amber had never been! crazy!
It is so beautiful.  I wish I had taken my mom there now... (ugh regrets)
This was the day we hated played with the monkey too.

We were hanging out swimming in the water when one of the guys starts throwing some food in and we see like 100 fairly large fish popping up eating it. gross.  I did NOT know there were fish in that water. haha.
But I still continued to swim.
It was a beautiful day and I'm so happy I got to spend with my two beautiful bestest Grenada friends.

I like this picture because it was freezing and Stephanie is so short!!! haha.  This picture exaggerated it I'm sure... but why are ALL my friends so short?  

Royal Mt. Carmel Falls

I made what may be my last trip (in the near future) to Mt. Carmel falls last Friday.
I went out on a high note, sliding down the falls without injury!

Read more a more detailed post about my first visit to Mt. Carmel here.

Annandale Falls

I'm posting this from the computer lab at SGU... where they still use Internet Explorer from like the year 2000 and the browser doesn't "support some parts of Blogger"  I may experience problems they say...
I'll tell you what problem I'm facing.... no spell checker. what?!  My lack of spelling skills can't be blamed on technology... it is deep rooted in 2nd grade where I received my first [and one of very few] C on a test.  When I won a school-wide spelling bee in 5th grade my family thought I had to of cheated.... and when I won the award for English in 7th grade my teacher announced to the entire school that I couldn't "spell a lick" but I was a great writer.
So basically bare with me. (should I be tying this out in Microsoft Word just incase?)

I'm finally doing a post on Annandale Falls.  I'd been twice before and someone never blogged about it? what is wrong with me?!
Sunday my friend Stephanie invited me to go along with her and her family that was visiting to the falls.  I'd been before and knew the way & somehow I am full of random bits of information about this island so it seems I make a pretty decent tour guide.  who wants to hire me?!
I'm so happy they asked because it was a fun and gorgeous trip.

Upon arriving at the falls we were greated by about 10 people all wanting to sell us something... pictures with the lady with fruit on her head, pictures with baby armadillos, original songs, and probably just souvenirs and spices.
We gave a few dollars to the man with the guitar who sang a sweet little song and called us all by the name of a celebrity named Jennifer.  I got Jennifer Love Hewitt..... surprised a Grenadian man even knows who she is.

It started to rain on our way down to the waterfall, but it is a nice paved path and only takes about 2 minutes to get to the waterfall from the road  (this is the perfect waterfall for someone who doesn't hike) and the rain made everything so green, so shiny, and so beautiful!

We took a super chilly, refreshing swim in the pool, went under the falls, and Steph was brave enough to jump off one of the ledges into the water.  You can jump from REALLY high up.... but it looked like a death sentence to me.

Baby Armadillos!  They're found wild in Grenada... they claim.  I bet they were brought in.

Thank you Stephanie for inviting me a long! so much fun!

Mt. Carmel!

Wednesday the SO took a trip to Mt. Carmel... which is in St. Andrews about an hour away (we live in St. George's.. on the very southwestern tip) millage wise, it was probably like 10 miles or something (the island is only 20 miles long total!) but because we drive on crazy little roads that go up mountains and around crazy curves and the top speed is probably 40mph.... it took an hour.

It was well worth it though.  I sat in the front seat of the taxi/van to avoid getting claustrophobia or sick, so I got to see a lot of the countryside and the drive told lots of interesting stories.
The driver was a young guy, probably in his mid 20s.  Had he been born in America he would have been an actor or musician or famous athlete or just plain good looking.... and here he drives a taxi and owns chickens. and he's probably doing really well for himself by their standards. and he is. he was  very nice.

He told me the reason why there was a repulsive smell at one point was because there was a sugar cane factory that shut down one day and left all the sugar cane to rot! uuuuuuugh who knew sugar could smell so bad.
He pointed out some small houses that were given to squatters who lived on government land in St. George's.... and they put them FAR from St. George's. I still don't understand how people get up to these homes, even though he said there were roads.

He told me about rum, the schools, where the rich people live, about owning chickens, mangoes... and laughed at us a lot.... foolish Americans, and Canadians, and lots of other nationalities :)

Everywhere you look here there is an awesome view... the highway runs pretty close to the shoreline because it is so mountainous in the center of the country.  Every time I see the ocean over a hill or around a curve I'm still amazed.

Once we got to Mt. Carmel we hiked to a gorgeous waterfall.

and got under it! 

 

 

 this was supposed to be our panteen pro-v commercial :)

 

 

Sarah, Me, Cristina, Sherry, and Amber... fellow SOs 

Then we hiked to another waterfall not far away... Grenada is over flowing with beauty. I cannot believe so much is contained on one small 20X12 island!

 

lots of people slid down these falls like a slide.... but I didn't.

I was chicken.
I partially regret it and partially feel like if I had gone, I would have been the one to get hurt.

I don't like to take unnecessary risks. especially in foreign countries. and especially when Lee's not around. 

but everyone else had a good time! and we'll go again in the fall so I may go then.... 

Once we came out of the jungle (and yes it is literally a jungle) we saw another amazing view 

aaahhhh I love Grenada.