Holiday Vacation Part lll

I think I left off part II with hubby getting his dislocated shoulder fixed. That was on the Tuesday. Wednesday needless to say was a slower paced day. We did some great sightseeing and checked out the local sights. A lot of PV is on the hill and you forever feel like you are walking up hill.....it's great for the calf muscles but I know it was a little tiring for dear hubby. This church "Our Lady of Guadalupe" is right in the middle of downtown PV it's large bell rings on the hour, it is open to visitors and is a lovely church inside. This is the town square, September was the month in which they celebrate Independence, and everywhere you looked there were signs and flags and streamers the week before we arrived there had been big celebrations the city streets..... these were some of the stairs we climbed.....

and still more stairs.......

after our long walk we decided it was time for a cervesa and beach side.....and I guess my friend here thought it was time for a break as well.....

While sitting on the beach we were approached by another vendor trying to sell us another tour. This time it was going to be a tour to the rain forest and riding the "zip lines" through the jungle. We scheduled this for the next morning. As my girls are not early risers we decide to do the late morning excersion departing at 11:00 am. That would give us plenty of time to have breakfast, do some touring and walk to the place where we were to be picked up.

Here are the girls in their harnesses for the zip line....

Here are the girls and I with our funny surgical hats on....those are necessary for sanitary purposes....one tends to sweat like crazy climbing in the humid rain forest and we had to wear these helmets which have been worn by many tourists before us.....

and here we are making our own fashion statement.....Paris and couture's look out.....

Here is middle daughter testing the line, we had two lines that we got to practise on before we hit the big ones....

and here's me....such grace....such style and form......

me coming in for the landing after our 2nd practice run....hubby wasn't able to join us on the zip lines....it took about 1.5 hrs climbing and travelling along 12 different lines. Some of the lines we crossed were 90 meters high that's about 300ft up and travelling at speeds of up to 50 miles/hr, the longest line being 440 meters long......

and here's youngest practicing her form......

and here was a refreshing pool we were able to swim in after the adventure.....we didn't know we were able to go swimming afterwards, but we didn't care we were so hot that we just dove in clothes and all......
Here is eldest and youngest contemplating going in....that rope in the middle of the picture you could swing out on and release and fall into the water...which of course we all did.....
there she goes.....
and if that wasn't fun enough you could then climb up between the rocks make your way across the water and then slide down the natural water slide.....

the girls enjoying the refreshing mountain fed pools......it truly was a fun filled day.....needless to say we were exhausted after it all. Our tour did include a tour of a tequila factory where they showed us the process that is used in making tequila, it takes about 50 lbs of the agave plant to make one bottle of tequila....it was really an interesting process to watch.....and no I did not sample any tequila......youngest daughter took some photos of the jungle as we were driving through it....

So there you have it.....that evening we went out for a nice dinner and again did some wondering around town....the girls decided that Thursday evening was going to be their evening on the town....and I leave those stories up to them......they made it home safe....and much earlier than I thought.....I went with them up to the roof top for a late night swim.......oh what a vacation......only two days left......I'll fill you in on my next vacation installment.....cheers all....