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Mindo in a Day


Last Saturday Uncle Earl took us kids plus a couple of Zach's friends to Mindo. We went to a Butterfly House first. That was really cool. We got to see quite a few butterflies actually coming out of their cocoons. Had a couple butterflies land on me. We spent quite a bit of time just walking around looking at all of them, and standing in front of the cocoon cupboard watching them come out.
After that we went on a zip line. It was really fun. There were a few cables that you could do tricks on with the guides. I didn't - I was feeling a little sick still. It looked pretty sweet though. We went with a few American girls and they were so funny to listen to. Some of them would scream all the way across - it was NOT that scary. XD
Then the boys went tubing on the river while Eli and I stayed in the car. I slept. We were going to stay the night in Mindo, but by about 3:00 we had already done all we wanted to do, so we headed home.

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