Saturday March 17, 2007

On Saturday the 17^th we went to the Blue Hole. It was pretty there. We started by hiking along a trail through the jungle towards a large cave. We had a tour guide who told us about everything that was passed. We saw an “all spice” tree and everyone got to pick a leaf off. I never knew before that “all spice” was one spice… rather then all spices mixed together!

We went through the cave and could barely see anything because we didn’t have very many flashlights. I tried to take pictures in the cave, but they didn’t turn out very well. It was so dark in there! We saw cool formations on the roof of the cave; one was a “jellyfish formation”. We also saw some mien pottery.

On our way back through the cave we stopped and went swimming. That was interesting because it was pitch black so we had to swim with a flashlight and we couldn’t see what the water was like… or what was in the water. We didn’t swim very quickly through that water! Thankfully the water was shallow for the most part. It was a lot of fun.

After the cave we trekked back through the jungle and had lunch. At lunch we met a Jewish man. He was sitting at the table that we were eating at. The poor man was sitting there trying to fill out a survey and we were all making sandwiches and stuff practically on top of him. We told him that we were Christians… and his response was sad, and somewhat unexpected to me. He said “Oh, I didn’t notice.” It makes me realize that people really are watching and observing and our actions speak for us. We talked to him a bit and asked him to pray a blessing over us.

After lunch we went to swim in the blue hole. It was really pretty there. We had to decent down several steps into a valley. It was beautiful. The water was so pretty. We had a fun time just swimming and playing around in the water. We also went swimming into another cave. We couldn’t go very far in that one though.

On our way back home we drove passed a dump. We noticed that there were children there who were searching through the garbage for food. We decided to stop our bus and give the kids the rest of our bread that we had left over from lunch. As soon as the kids saw us slowing down they came running.

The day was an overall good day.