The Garden of Eden

Really exists, in case you were sceptical after the last post.

I went there yesterday again, together with Liz, one of my housemates. It wasn't too sunny of a day, unfortunately, but I decided to take a swim in the frrrreezing water anyway. Because I'm tough. Rawr.

I assumed that the train tracks we had to walk by for 40 minutes of the hike were not used, because that's what the guy who brought me to the Garden the first time told me. Well, I can tell you, there *is* a train going on those tracks. A damned slow one, going about as fast as a byciclist. But still, we had to jump down a rather steep hill to dodge the train. And hide. because the train was full of tourists and obviously you're not allowed to tresspass there. So anyway, *adrenalin rush*. I sitll find it hard to believe that that actually happened. *giggle*

Two video's to show you how beautiful The Garden of Eden is:)

This is a little song to listen to while looking at the video's (thanks to Dutch friend Elizabeth, I would've put it as background music to the video's but I'm too lazy for that right now. Please put it on though...the video's are really painful to watch without background music (because then you can hear my voice:P)):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LcL7MAqwOc&ob=av2e

Video 1: me seeing a ground squirrel (Knabbel en Babbel!) and getting excited. I can't believe how embarrassing it is to listen to yourself babbling to a ground squirrel. But anyway. Some pretty views as well.

Video 2:

Me jumping into a water hole:). It's actually more scary than it looks, there is only one small part which is 9 foot deep, everything else is shallow, so you have to aim quite precisely when you jump:) yay!

There are a lot more places like this around campus, I think I want to make hiking in a random direction a biweekly thing, because we don't have such forests in Holland:) The US *are* quite beautiful indeed.