The mature man would obviously be my brother David…..the other two guys — not so much.  And I have to say that Seth makes me laugh so hard….especially when he “deserves” Micah’s camera!

Via micah –

“hi babe,

today is our last day in panama.  that means i´ll be home tonight.  we should be home around 11:00pm if everything runs smoothly.  ç
yesterday was pretty cool.  we went on a canopy tour of the rainforest.  the resort has an aerial tram ride that they´ve carved out on top of a hill.  the guide told us about all of the wildlife and we saw a huge iguana and a cayman in a small pond.  that was the extent of the big animals.  everything else was ants and trees and termites.  seth and i ate some termites for lunch.
at the top of the hill was a huge ten-story observation tower that we went to the top of and we could see all around the rainforest.  the view was amazing of the chagres river flowing into the panama canal.  the crazy thing is you have to be that high just to get out of the top of the trees.  it´s an incredibly dense forest.
there was a nature preserve that was part of our tour.  it was kind of like a mini zoo.  we walked through a butterfly sanctuary and there were hundreds of butterflys all over the place. there was a snake place just like the one at the zoo where you can look at them through the glass. there was also a river wildlife exhibit and one of the animal pads had a big crocodile sitting in it.  we all thought it was fake; it really looked fake and didn´t move at all.  we had actually left the building when david came out and told us that it was real so we had to go back in to confirm.  if you looked really closely in its mouth, you could see him breathing.  freaky.  seth even through a rock at it but the thing didn´t even budge.  maybe he was a heavy sleeper.
we had lunch by the river and we could see tons of fish and turtles.  somebody saw a crocodile, but by the time i ran over to look it was gone.  supposedly there are a couple of crocodiles that hang out under that restaurant–which sits over the water.
afterwards we came home and jumped in the pool for a bit.  then seth and i went kayaking on the chagres.  we had asked the people at the front desk if we could swim across and they told us about the crocodilles, but our kayak guide thought it would be ok if we jumped in and swam around in the middle of the river.  so we kayaked over to the point where the river flows into the canal and jumped in and swam under the barrier into the canal.  not too many people can say they´ve ever swam in the panama canal.
we tipped each other over a couple of times and then the guide found a sloth in the trees so we went to check it out.  then we headed back to the docks.  right in front of the docks we tipped each other over again and the guide was already out of the water at this point.  so i tossed seth and cruised over to the dock and the guide told me that he didn´t think we should be swimming right there.  that´s where the crocodiles live because the fishermen come back from their trips and toss all of the extra fish to the crocs.  so i kind of got this sick feeling in my stomach and seth was still out in the kelp trying to get on his kayak.
once we were all on shore, we asked the guide how big the crocodiles were (the one we saw in the rainforest was about 4 feet long).
and he said, “how long is a meter? about 3 feet, right?”
we nodded ”yes”
then he responded, “well, then, it´s probably 15 or 16 feet long”
my stomach got huge knots in it.
later in the evening, we went on a bike ride around the resort and back down to the docks to look for the crocodile.  but no luck.
the worst part it that i don´t have any of this on my camera because seth´s camera was broken and he thought he deserved to use my camera.  so he took my sim card out and put his in and carried around the camera all day.  he never even asked to do it, but hinted the night before that he thought of a great idea “that he could just put his card in my camera” and solve his problem with his broken camera.
anyhow, my time is out and i´ll be home tonight.  i love you.”