To start, I want to wish my baby brother, Stephen a very Happy Birthday. I checked on a world map and we are both, about at the same latitude. Thinking of you and all the family for Easter.
Happy Easter to all . XXX

Today we were suppose to visit a local village in the mountains, drive for 2hrs and 30minutes of terrible dirt roads, arrive in a nice typical village, hike for an hour and thirty minutes in order to reach the second highest falls in Madagascar while Louise choose to stay in the village and cook a meal with the major's wife and wait for our return. We hired a local guide who was told by her coordinator (Freddy) where to take us. Freddy met us the day before to find out what type of excursion we wanted and told us that Clara (our guide) would be the one to accompany us, since they do it on a rotational basis. Clara was on time and so off we went with two live chickens, a kilo of potatoes, carrots, onions, green beens, cabbage, bars of soap for gifts, a kilo of sugar, salt, 3 pineapples and a partridge in a pear tree.

After three hours of driving on hiking paths not fit for any kind of vehicle, taking the wrong turns and having to back down very narrow roads, we all agree that we had enough and our chickens were getting restless . The guide did not seem to know where to go, and her plan was very different from what we had agreed upon with Freddy. Not cool because now we all had to walk and carry all the food in order to reach the village and that the falls were beside the village.

Turns out that the water falls were only 20 minutes away, Louise stayed with our driver and tied the chickens to a tree so that they could walk around a little. Lucie, Francois and I took the walk through the rice fields to see the falls. They were not the ones we were promised, 10 metres at the most but we were suppose to see 120 metres of falls. Another disappointment, so upon our return we told her to take us back to the hotel and that we refused to pay the balance. She was close to tears but we told her not to worry and that we would work it out with her boss.

Had lunch upon our return at the hotel and Louise spoke to the kitchen staff and asked if she could use the facilities to cook up a meal for supper. They prepared the chicken for her and Louise got to work.