Crazy bugs! Akiko found two of the funkiest, possibly poisonous looking bugs I've ever seen on a plant in the hostel, so I freed them outside....... Big day!

Robbed! Columbia defeats Uruguay! This morning an older Australian couple left the hostel without paying..... Weasels! Columbia made it out of the group round to the final sixteen in the World Cup so it was a pretty exciting time in the country of Columbia! Yay soccer....... Aka football! Lol Greg and I went out to a bar in town to watch the game and Columbia won!!! Guatape was going nuts but I needed to be in Medellin for the next one vs Brazil!!! It was a ...

Water pillow madness I've always wanted to try a water pillow and today was the day! The family next door, Yuki and I all went down the street to give it a go! Yuki and I jumped off the bridge first with about 20 people or so gathered around so the pressure was on! Especially Yuki who hadn't jumped off it yet! I jumped off twice and the second time the police came and took pictures of me from afar! I wasn't sure if I was in any trouble or not but they came over ...

Bike ride to San Raphael Three Americans, Tony, and I went to San Raphael on mountain bikes today. San Raphael is about 900m lower than Guatape so made for a nice ride with beautiful scenery with not much peddling! I just couldn't wipe the smile off my face the entire day while riding down the side of the mountain. We stopped at a really nice waterfall, swimming hole on the way down. In San Raphael we went for a little ride around town and then waited to cat...

Yuki and Misaki arrive! Akiko's friends, also from Japan, arrived today. Yuki, with plans to volunteer as well, was accepted as well after Greg and Nick saw the high quality work of the Japanese! We all worked as a big team and had fun while doing it!