December 15, 2010

• Rain Forest

  

  Phew! It’s been a full few days last. Geoff and Brielle came (late, thanks to Air Mad, like he mentioned), and we left immediately the next morning for Andasibe/the rainforest.
  
  The day of their (late night) arrival the rest of us spent a while at the souvenir market looking for gifts for friends and then lunched at the Combava. So nice.

  
  Judah took to the no-kiddie-only-deep-water-pool at Vakona Lodge like a fish. He put on his arm bands and decided then and there that he was no longer afraid of the deep end – and voila! – there he went. From then on he enjoyed the pool like never before.

  

  There was a lot of reading and lounging by the pool while we were there. Of course we did the hike through the forest looking for lemurs (more on that later) and the lemur island, but apart from that and eating we were at the pool because it was just that hot out. i think i was the only one who complained about the temperature though.

  
  here’s part of the hike – spiders!

  unfortunately for most of us, Asher was exactly due for his morning nap when we were hiking quietly through the forest looking for birds and lemurs, which means he started shrieking and schleming and crying… <sigh> i think he was also a bit disconcerted with the whole forest environment while he felt he should really be in a quiet room with his teddy and a milk bottle. in the end, after a lot of shushing and bouncing and whatnotall Josh took him back to the parking lot and we hiked on and saw… not much else. alas.

  

  

  
  Josh with the (finally) sleeping Asher.

  
  A drink in the pool on a hot day. can life get any better than that?

  
  Asher’s new-to-him pool tube-shirt.

  We have 5+ cameras to pool photos from on this trip, so there may be more in the day to come. Just to warn you though, we leave for the tropical island gettaway from this tropical island on friday morning until the 22nd, so until then you wont hear from us again.

  

  
  this is my one! token lemur shot (taken by josh).

  

  

  
  asher liked to pull the lemur’s hair.

  

  

  i tried so hard to pose a brothers photo with the lemurs, but by the time we started the staging the lemurs were so full of bananas that they didnt want to come anymore. bah!

  
  this is about as good as i got.

  This morning we were at Judah’s kindergarten Christmas program. It was entertaining as always. I’ll post some vids tomorrow.

  

  Here we are eating our last lunch at Vakona before the long drive back home. I gotta say, in the (only) 3 times i’ve been to Andasibe, this was by far my favorite time because of the weather and the time we could spend at the pool. So nice.

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