Hello all! Happy Friday. This is Kyle, Caleb and Cody. This morning we started off with our last day at Grace primary school doing our devotions with our groups. It was great to see them one last time and sing songs with them. After that we earned some free time because we worked so hard this week and got everything done by Thursday. We had two options: Stay in the city and take a cultural tour and do some shopping, or go out to a national park and do some zip lining and cave tubing! We (Caleb and Cody) did go out to the park and had a blast! We started off by riding 5 or 6 zip lines, the tallest being 350 feet tall. The were some great views in the foothills of the Maya Mountains. We then rode into the national park and met up with our guides for the cave tubing. We had to get our helmets and tubes and then began hiking into the jungle for about 30 mins. On the walk, our guide showed us many things, from plants with ink to termite dens. Those of us who were brave enough even ate some termites! Great source of protein, and kind of minty. We then got into the river at the mouth of one of the cave systems and strapped our tubes together and began our journey. In the cave the guides spoke about how the Mayans used these cave as ceremonial places and all the different geological discoveries. Once through the caves we did some open water floating which was fantastic. We were able to get out and swim around, though careful around the rocks because there are deadly water snakes! Luckily we saw none. We finished off our day with lunch provided by the guide company and then back to the city. I'll pass this off to Kyle to speak about what it was like in the city and how we finished our day! Well, on Friday we didn't have much to do because we finished all the work we had planned for the week by Thursday. So on Friday i went with the group to go sight seeing. We went to a couple museums and learned about the culture and some of the background of the people of Belize, and while doing so we took a little time to go shopping until we had to meet with the other group for open door. They were a little late but that was okay. Our group came up with some stuff last minute to do for the kids, and they seemed to love it! After church we finished off our day by going back to one of the museum my group had already visited and ate dinner at the restaurant there. Its on the oceans, so you could imagine how beautiful, and cold it was.
That about wraps up the day! Stay tuned for more updates tomorrow!
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