Luke's Blog

 This blog entry is not a bit like the blog entries from Trinidad, but hey; it's still a blog entry. So I got this letter from my Aunt Bennie that had money (kind of like dollar collection from Trinidad). I got money from Kazakstan and Mexico. This is from Kazakstan, from right after they became a country.

  This is from Mexico. Can you imagine carrying around a $2000 bill?

Thanks to Aunt Bennie. Does anybody else want to send me money?

Luke has posted a response to your comment under the Pitch Lake entry, where the class posted its comment. 
Luke is very excited to be coming home tomorrow, but not until one more trip into the rainforest!
from: Luke's mom

Now isn't that the way to start a blog entry! Asa Wright Center is a place that you can go to see anmials, including: agouti, snakes, leaf cutter ants and birds (including kissdadees)!

 
a tegu called Max.



an agouti

 

There were lots of booby traps! It's volcanic but it cannot erupt because the gas pressure is leaking!
A long time ago, a guy said "I don't need a guide!" and fell in!

Here's a picture of a piece of it, bent!

 

Have you ever thought to have a collection of dollars, Trinidad might be there. Here's a picture of what I'm saying:

 





Trinidad money is different . It costs one sixth as much as American.

 There's so many flowers just like this:



And this:



Can you believe it?
And here's some more pictures of wonderful, wonderful flowers:

 

In Trinidad, we were very busy, we were never in just one place! Some in Atlanta, some in Asheville, and others including Trinidad, the ferry and Tobago! A couple of days ago, but not now, luckily!

 

poem: first ya pick 'em



then ya put 'em down



then ya peel 'em



then sink your teeth into 'em
then yumee! 

By Sabrina and Luke

All photos by Luke

 

There were lots of chairs and umbrellas like in the picture.



I was a little bit weird.


The glass-bottomed boats were beautiful.




The ocean was so clear even very far from shore, can you believe it!



There was this sand bar in the middle of the ocean, called Pelican's Island. Once they had a wedding there, the pelicans were the guests of honor, unbelievable!




This guy came up to my dad and just put some aloe on him. But then he said it'll cost you $5.

  

The sunset was beautiful.

the rainforest was beautiful! I got to see a hummingbird catch bugs! We learned that: there's this plant that when the bird eats the seed, it will wipe its mouth on a tree. The seed will kill the tree and use its nutrients for its growth.

 

Here is the flower where the bird gets the seeds.
The name of the vine that grows from the seed is Strangler Fig.




(This is not a picture from our trip, but it gives you an idea of what the strangler fig looks like when it's grown).



















Today's post written by Luke and Sabrina.

 Once we got to Trinidad, we had to go to Tobago.  So the next morning we rode a ship to Tobago because we couldn't fly.
  
On the ferry I threw up four times!

Later I felt better!

We got on the airplane and the clouds looked kinda like a cup of blue hot chocolate with a lot of marshmallows.

 

The wing looked like an escape pod.

We had dinner on the plane. It was a  lot better than I thought it would be.

 


We drove to the airport. We went through security but my Dad's belt buckle got the alarm. Ha! Ha!














 

   story: This ship floated out of space But, luckily but not so luckily an outer space evil villain
appeared out of nowhere (like any other fairy tale) ha ha ha!

Ah! the evil villain is coming! Just kidding ha ha ha! I built this evil ship out of legos!


here's a new way to look at it. It has legs for landing!





here's one last look at it! The Dude inside is holding a little ray sensor!