Catch Up

Ok so we have had internet problems so I have not been able to blog, do school, or skype people back home.  The day we started driving was Thursday or Wednesday for you guys back home.  We drove until we got to this one point where we got out to go look at this bridge.  We thought it was just going to be a bridge you can walk across to get to the other side.  Well you can go across the bridge, pan for gold, and come back on this zip line thing.  The bridge was pretty scary.  It turned out to be wire that was as round as a quarter  with some tubes of metal for the hand rail and the sides and floor were that metal stuff you can use for a fence.  It was very bouncy because my dad decided to add an extra hop in his step.  Well we walked around for a bit then I went panning for gold and got some pretty good slices.  Then me and my dad went back across the bridge to watch them come down the zip line.  My brother and sister went first and said it was pretty cool.  Then my mom  came across but right in the middle she grew an extra set of arms and legs.  It turns out that she made one of the people who work there come with her.  It was pretty finny.  The motel we stayed in was pretty good that night.  I had to sleep on a futon.  The next day we left that town and headed toward the next.  We stopped at a national park to go on some trails.  On the first trail we got down to the end and took a break.  You had to go through this little cave to get to the bank of the river.  When I got there I saw a huge rock maybe three feet away from the shore.  I thought I could get up there pretty easily.  I was wrong.  At first I tried to build a bridge with some rocks.  The water got pretty deep really fast.  The rocks did not work so I took my shoes off and waded into the water.  I couldn't lift myself up because it was too high.  There was this log kind of out further that leaned against the rock.  I was about to give up but I finally stuck my foot on the log crawled up and made it onto the rock.  I climbed to the top and my dad took my picture.  When I got down he showed my the picture and there was one ray of sunlight shining on my head.  We all thought that was pretty funny.  Then we got to the next place and it was really nice.  We woke up the next day and I got to pick what we did that day.  I choose to go on a tube, that you would go down on a slide with, down a river which led to a glowworm cave where you got to stand around drink hot chocolate and have a little candy bar.  It sounds pretty easy and fun but after hitting about three million rocks with my but I knew that this was not fin and games.  For some reason I always went down the fastest on the currents.  The water was warm in the river but then we got out.  I forgot to mention they make you put on a wet suit with booties a long sleeve shirt and some nice warm socks.  When we got to the spot where you enter the glow worm cave you had to slide down on this piece of plastic on a mud slide into water.  When I flew in I thought I was going to get hypothermia.  The water was extremely cold.  Anyway we floated into the cave and didn't go far because it got deep pretty fast and the water got colder.  When we were by this little underground waterfall we had hot chocolate and a candy bar in the dark.  The glowworms glow in the dark a pretty blue.  After that we walked back to the car and headed to the shop.  When we got there you took your wet suites off and got in a hot tub.  Then we headed back to the hotel.  In the morning we had a late start because the car battery died.  But we finally made it to Franz Josef so we could ride the horses.  The mountains here are huge and snow capped even in the hottest month.  It looks amazing.  We went on the horse trek and I had a horse named Cheeto.  The horse was ok but she wanted to eat everything in her path.  Also my knee hurt while we were riding the horses.  That was not my favorite experience.