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The Last Post (For Now)

Last Friday a big white car took us from the Hotel Tryp to Panama City's international airport. We took a four-hours-and-a-bit flight to Houston, waited around in Houston for a bit, and had dinner at the same restaurant in which we had dinner when we stopped in Houston last time. We got back to Vancouver at about 1.30am because the flight was delayed. When we got to our house we went straight to bed.

The rest of this post is pictures and a video of some of the best moments of this holiday.

This is a video of the take-off from Caracas to fly to Los Roques in a very small plane called an Islander. You could see the pilot flying the plane.

This is me having fun relaxing on the nice warm sand on some island in Los Roques while I have my body buried by my sister, Lucy.

I picked this starfish up from sea floor near one of the islands in Los Roques. It felt very sticky on the bottom. I liked diving down for it. That was fun.

This is Hermitville, a small temporary overcrowded town of hermit crabs. I made it on the last day we were in Los Roques. The island we went to was full of little hermit crabs. They're so light that they keep getting blown over by the wind.

At Willemstad in Curaçao we visited the Kura Holanda Museum and saw this skeleton which was missing its arms. That's why I liked it.
















I like this room in the museum because it had a lot of extinct animals and rifles and animal-shaped furniture.

This is the aquarium in Curaçao in which I had lots of fun looking at lots of weird and interesting fish. I also fed flamingoes, turtles, and a pelican.












One of the best things in Curaçao was the Ostrich Farm. I got feed two ostriches and there were also some crocodiles and small turtles. Most of the small turtles got eaten by the crocodiles because they were put in the same pool, except for one who gets treated as a crocodile.







My favourite thing about Aruba was the butterfly farm which has lots of foreign butterflies and a few moths. They even teach you how to get a butterfly onto your hand by rubbing fruit juice on your fingers. 

This was my favourite thing in The Gold Museum in Bogotá. I liked it because the birds look like they have platypus noses.










This was a shopping mall in Bogotá at which we went to look. I liked the decoration because it looked like dandelion seeds.

At the fort in Cartagena I liked sitting on the cannons looking at the view of the town below.

In the café at the Sofitel in Cartagena there are two toucans. One of them stole some melon. I'm giving this one a stare down.

Sometimes in Cartagena we'd go walking on the fortifications in the evenings.

This was the big train that we took back from Colón to Panama City.

Editorial Note

[This is merely to let you know, gentle readers, that the author of this blog had no sooner returned home than he went to spend a few days with his grandparents. Expect the promised Greatest Hits posting (with video!) sometime in the middle of this week. Ed.]

Last Days in Panama

Yesterday when we we woke up there was a grave problem. I wasn't feeling too well again. Mummy, Daddy, and Lucy went out to breakfast and I stayed in bed. We got in the car and drove to a nearby orchid garden. I stayed out in the café while everyone else went to look. Everyone else told me that it was the wrong season for orchids.

We drove slowly down the mountain and along the coast to Panama City and back to Hotel Tryp. We checked-in and went for a nice lunch except for me: I had vegetable soup and plain bread. For part of the afternoon Lucy and Mummy went out shopping longer than we expected. We lazed about for the afternoon and watched 'Men in Black'.

For dinner I had a bread roll with bananas and apple juice, but this morning I feel much better, so I'm going down for a buffet breakfast.

Today we will fly from Panama City to Houston, and then Houston back to Vancouver.

Tomorrow the last post will show all the best parts of the trip.

Hiking and an Irish Pub

A-hiking we will go

A great view

Yesterday we got up and left Eco Venao, and drove halfway back to Panama City. We drove up into the mountains to a place called El Valle, and found a hotel called Los Capitanes for one night. It was a small room and it had a bath shower with no plug. We went to go and see a waterfall. They had free hiking sticks and we walked across a suspension bridge. You could wade right up to the waterfall but we didn't want to get our feet wet. The area was very jungly and there were hummingbirds and other wildlife. The waterfall wasn't going completely straight. It was jagged with several strands of water going in different directions. It looked not very amazing, but interesting.

We went to an Irish pub called O'Pedro for a drink and dinner. I had fish and chips. It took a long while to come but it was tasty so it was worth the wait.

The Last Beach

Today we didn't do much and I didn't have much to eat because I ended up vomiting again in the morning. I stayed in bed because I was ill and I had to have a lot to drink including ginger ale which I didn't particularly like because my taste buds don't like any fizzy drinks.

I played cards and read my books and as time went on I started to feel better. Later, when I felt 99% well I went to the games room and had a two-on-two series of games of table football with Lucy and two Spanish-speaking children who were in the games room. It was boys versus girls and the girls won most of the games. We only won one of the games.



Later we drove for a little bit in the car and went to a white sand beach. There was a lot of dry wood lying around in various shapes and sizes and there were sand crabs, hermit crabs, and reddish crabs. I went in the water for a bit and it was nice and warm and pleasant. There were no fish to see when we went snorkelling. It was probably the last beach we are going to go to on this vacation.

He tickles Daddy's foot

Beats any famous painting (drawn by me)

When we got back we had showers and started writing this blog, and Mummy discovered a giant green grasshopper on the bed. Daddy managed to get it off by catching it in two origami paper boxes which I made.

A Day of Not Doing Much

Yesterday we went to a small nearby town called Pedasí to go get some things for meals for the next two days at Eco Venao because we're not going out to eat. We don't want to go up and down that hill in the car too often and we have a full kitchen. After shopping we went for a bun and a drink at a small café nearby. I had a chocolate croissant and some milk.

We spent part of the afternoon inside. Later I went to the games room at the lodge on foot through the green and jungly area. There are lots of howler monkeys and we heard them again over breakfast. There are also crickets, various weird bugs, house lizards, stripy lizards, parrots, and hummingbirds.

For dinner we had pasta with sardines soaked in tomato sauce.

As I went up to my bedroom I noticed that there was a giant frog hopping up the stairs beside me. When it got to the top it hid behind a potted plant and started assassinating the flies.

When I went to my room I noticed a few things. There was a house lizard sitting super still on my table, a giant moth on the ceiling, and I have my own private balcony. I got into my big red two-person bed and vomited. I didn't feel too well after that, but I finally managed to get some sleep. The house lizards were going click-click-click, and it was driving me totally bananas.