MUNGO EATS Latin America

I started the day by waking up under a shelf.  How unusual!  I woke up under a shelf because it as the easiest place to make a little bed.  After I woke up we ate breakfast.  but first we had to feed K M TARP!!  by the way, Mungo is K M TARP.  K M TARP stands for King Mungo the Amazing Ridgie Pharaoh.  And then, we got going.  Our first adventure was the flutterbys.  We saw lots of different chrysalises and some cocoons.    Some flutterbys were coming out of their chrysalises when we were looking at them.  These people don’t actually collect the chrysalises that the find in their garden and then pin them to a board.  They actually buy them from other places and they let the flutterbys live there.  And when I said “pin them to a board”  they don’t hurt the flutterbys  at all.  They make sure that they hit a part that isn’t flutterby.  Another thing we saw in the flutterby garden was an owl flutterby caterpillar.    Some people in Costa Rica eat those things!  And here’s the flutterby.  And here is the monarch caterpillar.  The monarch’s favourite things to eat and live on are poisonous plants.  One of their favourites is the milkweed plant.  This makes them poisonous, too, so birds and other animals don’t eat them.  We also saw a moth that was as big as this: B.  That’s with its wing spread out.

We also went ziplining and swung on a Tarzan swing.  The ziplines stared off small and pretty slow, and finished with a speedy 1km zipline.  Sean and I both needed a guide to go with us so we didn’t stop in the middle.     There was one that was just right for us to go down alone.  Twice Sean and I had to go down together.  The first time, I think the guide was just being silly.  But the second time was on the 1km.  Everyone had to go with another person, and Sean an I only count as half a person!  Sigh……  I hate only half existing.  The ziplines were mostly all connected together.  The landing/taking off platforms up in trees except for the last two.  Sometimes we would have to walk between ziplines but not very often. 

We did a Tarzan swing!  The Tarzan was about twenty feet long and was connected to a thick tree branch.  The guides would hook you up to the ropes with a couple other ropes and then you jump off the platform.  As soon as you jump off the platform you drop about ten feet before the ropes catch you and you start to swing.  The first time you swing away from the platform and start to come back, you get a pit in your stomach.  Then it looks like you’re going to hit the dirt wall thee platform’s built on before you start to swing out again.  Eventually you get close enough to the ground that the guys at the bottom start to try to grab your legs to slow you down.  Once  you’re slowed down enough, they put up a big set of inner tubes and they catch you.  But you only got to do the Tarzan swing once!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Oh, well….