After a wonderful week at the beach, we headed back to Curitiba to catch our flight to Iguacu Falls. This place is a jungle. Hot, humid and beautiful, and our hotel was right across from the biggest part of the falls.
Lucky for Olivia, Grandpa was more than willing to carry her on his shoulders while we walked through the park.
The trails are amazing, and take you right out into the spray of some of the falls. Yes....you get very wet!
Kirk was excited to go and see all the big gross spiders.
I don't know why he insisted on holding them!
The butterflies landed right on the girls. They carried them around everywhere.
On the second morning we went to an Aviary. I worried most of the time about getting pooped on, but the kids thought it was fantastic when the birds would come right up to them. They even had a parrot for you to hold!
The cute little critters, Quachi, (Coati) are very abundant in Iguacu. So much so, that they are not afraid of people and will come right up to you. Kirk leaned down to see one as it walked up to him and it jumped right in his lap, stole his cookies, and ran away! Kirk managed to get some of the cookies back and we all had a good laugh.
Then, the same little guy came back and tried to steal Olivia's ice cream! I had to keep kicking him away so she could finish.
Needless to say, their charm seemed to wear off after a while!
One of the highlights of our time at Iguacu was a safari jeep ride that ended in a boat trip right up to the falls! In fact, our driver was quite enthusiastic and took us UNDER a waterfall. The people in the front of the boat were soaked.
Oh, that's right....WE WERE THE PEOPLE IN THE FRONT!
Once we had walked all the trails and were pretty pooped, we were very thankful for the buses that would take us from all the gift shops back to the hotel.
Experiencing this wonderful place with my children was the best part of all!
Lucky for Olivia, Grandpa was more than willing to carry her on his shoulders while we walked through the park.
The trails are amazing, and take you right out into the spray of some of the falls. Yes....you get very wet!
Kirk was excited to go and see all the big gross spiders.
I don't know why he insisted on holding them!
The butterflies landed right on the girls. They carried them around everywhere.
On the second morning we went to an Aviary. I worried most of the time about getting pooped on, but the kids thought it was fantastic when the birds would come right up to them. They even had a parrot for you to hold!
The cute little critters, Quachi, (Coati) are very abundant in Iguacu. So much so, that they are not afraid of people and will come right up to you. Kirk leaned down to see one as it walked up to him and it jumped right in his lap, stole his cookies, and ran away! Kirk managed to get some of the cookies back and we all had a good laugh.
Then, the same little guy came back and tried to steal Olivia's ice cream! I had to keep kicking him away so she could finish.
Needless to say, their charm seemed to wear off after a while!
One of the highlights of our time at Iguacu was a safari jeep ride that ended in a boat trip right up to the falls! In fact, our driver was quite enthusiastic and took us UNDER a waterfall. The people in the front of the boat were soaked.
Oh, that's right....WE WERE THE PEOPLE IN THE FRONT!
Once we had walked all the trails and were pretty pooped, we were very thankful for the buses that would take us from all the gift shops back to the hotel.
Experiencing this wonderful place with my children was the best part of all!
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What an AMAZING adventure. That is the BEST Christmas vacation I think I've ever seen anyone take! I am so insanely jealous!! ;) Glad you were able to go though. I'm sure you've made memories your whole family will be talking about forever!
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