Happy Rainforest Holidays

Since I live in the tropics, I have to remember snow. Luckily I grew up in South Dakota, where winters were full of sledding down steep hills and building snowmen in the front yard.

Now the rainforest marks my holiday memories with treks along small streams to finish off with a dip in a cool pool of a forest waterfall. That's as cold as it gets. No more frozen fingers and sniffles. No more thick mittens and balaclava covered heads.

Let the sun shine and let the leeches bite. The tangled rainforest has replaced the tundra and I'm not complaining. So goodbye to Santa and his reindeer and all those snow flurries, I am sticking to the land of sticky rice and satay.

Just to give you a glimpse of the rainforest experience, check out the home video (using only the handy Kodak Zi8 pocket video) below of a family adventure to a nearby jungle just about 1.5 hours outside Kuala Lumpur.