Dunn's Falls

Hey family and friends, this is Garrett here to tell you about our newest adventure today at Dunn's Falls. Our day first started with a much needed sleeping-in session that was enjoyed by every team member, after we all finally awoke from our slumber we enjoyed some personal quiet time and stared out into the beautiful blue ocean and reflected upon whatever was on our minds. When that was done we ate yet another delicious breakfast and packed for our exciting adventure that lay ahead of us. Once we were ready to go we loaded onto the bus, accompanied by our host from Fair Haven named Mary, and like always were greeted by our smiling bus driver Chris. During our drive Chris further educated us about the country we were visiting as well as cracked random jokes that we all greatly enjoyed, mostly because of the hand and body motions that accompanied them. After eating lunch at this small fast food restaurant that I cannot currently remember the name(I think it had some tropical theme to it), we were finally ready to scale Jamaica's own Niagara Falls or die trying! (For those parents who are now very unhappy they allowed their precious child to go on this trip I apologize and let me assure you that we were completely safe the entire time we were scaling the falls and I am sort of embellishing the size of the waterfall. It's kind of like when guys go fishing and when they come home and tell stories about

the fish they caught they are a million times larger than the goldfish they actually caught. If you still are worried about your child and their safety check out the pictures from the day and those should put your worries at ease.). In order to climb up Dunn's Falls, you first have to go down to the beach and start your ascent where the water empties into the ocean so naturally that is where we started after taking some pictures. Sadly because of Samantha's thumb, she was forced to the sideline for the first part of our adventure and took pictures of us starting our climb. Let me tell you Dunn's Falls is yet another testament to God's amazing creation that we call Earth, I am not going to try describing it to you because I would not do God justice and besides everyone says a picture is worth a thousand words. After we had successfully completed the first stage of the Falls Samantha was able to join us again and we proceeded to climb the rest of the waterfall as one big happy team. *sidenote by lindsey: the boys were absolutely amazing today helping us girls get up the falls. As you can see from the pictures there were many times when we needed their hands, or arms to keep us from falling and they were always there. They are great and we love them! *

Throughout our climb, various people managed to pull off pretty spectacular falls and my personal favorite would have to be seeing our big guy Sam Adams slip and slide on more than one occasion. Once we finally completed our amazing adventure the girls decided to relax on the beach while the guys went off to try and climb the harder parts of the waterfall. While I cannot tell you exactly what the girls did while we were gone, I can pretty much assure you that they probably talked about how muscular we are and how manly we were climbing the falls (see for yourselves in the pictures!). When we had finished climbing Dunn's for a second time we had the genius idea (or idiotic) of pretending one of us was hurt and got ketchup from a restaurant to smear on as fake blood. Luckily for us our girls are very nice and didn't kill us when they found out we were just joking. And that my friends pretty much wraps up our day at Dunn's Falls, as you can see we all very much enjoyed ourselves and it was great to take a day off and test ourselves against good old Mother Nature's finest. Now if I could only convince one of the girls to give me a massage (it's way harder than it sounds).....

In Him,

Garrett

Personal Note: Joey I just wanted to let you know that I am growing out my beard too and hopefuly this will help Lindsey's beard withdrawls. Also I think I am the only person on the team who has yet to see your "cat"...Joe it is great to hear from you and I hope you are enjoying Colorado. Madre and family I miss you all and think of you everyday. It is so nice to read your comments and know that you are supporting me 110% throughout this amazing trip I am taking part of. I can't wait to return home and tell you all about it while enjoying a massage :) Sarah it is great to hear from my little sister and know that she is doing well. Your heart would absolutely melt if you met these kids, they are so adorable and as you have heard we all have plans to take them home via suitcases and oxygen tanks. In response to the hat question you know perfectly well I will go nowhere without out it and to date it has been to Mexico, Canada, Malta, England, and now Jamaica. Continue to take care of yourself (you know what I am referring to), tell my family I love them and give them hugs for me, and tell Kyle I am looking foreword to a spa session when I get back and that I hope things with Arnold have cooled off and that his texting has not gotten him into trouble even though I know it has. Also make sure to throw in "Big Guy" somewhere when you are relaying that message to him.