Trying Tuesday, again

Okay, so I tried this earlier, and it wouldn't post to the internet.

On Tuesday, after a fairly lazy start, we met Danka and a guide at Palau Pacific Resort (PPR) for a gentle nature hike. This half-mile hike was to ascend 300 ft through many native plants with our guide who pointed out many indigenous trees and plants and their historical and traditional uses. It was a lovely walk/climb - we had to ascend and descend those 300 ft, several times. Not great on Mom's knees, which hadn't quite recovered from Saturday. Even if Ron, Kirk and I had recovered from Saturday, we also had Monday's day of diving to get over.

Anyway, these pictures are just a few of the amazing orchids in the lobby of PPR. The second picture contains two, absolutely huge blossoms on one plant. They were each at least 6-7 inches wide. Our camera's battery died shortly after that, so we'll try to get some pix from Mom's camera to post from the hike. We saw many interesting plants, trees, frogs and one or two (look away Aunt D) snakes.

It rained on us pretty good during the second half of our walk, and we all pretty much arrived back at the hotel looking like drowned rats.

After we drip dried a bit, we headed out to find lunch. We ended up at "The Taj", a fabulous Indian restaurant by any standards, and especially here in Palau. They had unfortunately discontinued their daily lunch buffet (now only on Fridays), but Robert, the very kind owner, suggested that he could make for us a sampling of many things for a set price. We each received a small serving of beef vindalu, buttered chicken, spinach with cheese (palaak paneer), grilled chicken and fish, yougurt with vegetables, rice, naan and roti and even a rice pudding for dessert. We had so much food left over, we couldn't even finish it all for dinner that night. Over dinner at home we watched "Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End".

Over all it was a very rainy, stormy day, but we had fun anyway.