After we've both had our fill of the food we pack everything up and continue on our journey. The path is a lot wider now, so much so that we can walk side by side and hold hands as we hike the rest of the way up the mountain. With the walls of the mountain on either side of us and my husbands hand in mine, I feel much safer and can finally start to relax.
The mountain walls are really beautiful, I can see some kind of red stone intertwined with various stones in shades of blue and green, all mixed and scattered throughout a variety of tan, black and brown stone braided and molded into one solid wall. There are scattered bushes of some type of green brush.
We've been walking at a fairly steady incline apart from a few not so well placed boulders and stones in the pathway we had to climb and stumble over. Well, I stumbled and struggled to climb them and Jack just watched me and laughed at my, at times futile, efforts.
Thoroughly embarrassed and angry now, I refuse to hold his hand until he apologizes for not helping me and making fun of me. He's tried twice now to hold my hand only for his hand to be swatted away by me. He's trying to get my attention for kisses now, but I refuse to dignify his efforts with any kind of response. He's hugging me now and kissing me all over my face. I can't help but start to giggle uncontrollably and stop being mad all of the sudden.
"I love you." He says in a soft voice. "I'm sorry I upset you."
"It's okay, I can't stay mad at you anyway. I love you too much." I say in reply, kissing him on the lips a few times.
"Let's keep going." I say enthusiastically, I can't wait to see what all this effort was for.
"Okay, let's go." He says in reply while grabbing my hand. And we start off down the path again.
After a while we see a bend in the mountain a little ways up ahead, it kind of looks like a cave opening from here.
As we come around the bend in the wall of the mountain, I see the most glorious waterfall probably in the entire universe. it comes down from a tall ledge in the mountain side. The ledge and the clearing kind of look to be in a half moon shape. The waterfall is pouring one big stream down the center of the crescent ledge and flows into a pool of water. The water is a clear blue green color and it's so clear that I can see all the way to the bottom. There are various colored pebbles all along the bottom of the lake. There is a small rock ledge just peaking out from behind the bottom of the waterfall. There are green vines with tiny purple flowers draping down the sides of the mountain going down the ledge on either side of the water fall and stopping just before the edge of the water.
"Wow!" I breath out.
"You like it?" Jack asks looking anxious.
"I love it! It's breath taking! I've never seen anything more beautiful in my life!" I exclaim excitedly.
"I have." Jack says staring at me like he wants to eat me.
I giggle and hug him around the waist, placing a passionate kiss on lips, trying to put all my love into it.
As I break the kids I ask, " can we swim in it?"
"Of course." Jack replies and begins unbuttoning my top and slipping it down my shoulders letting it fall to the ground off my arms. I wore a button down denim tank top that ties just above my belly button and a pair of pink denim Daisy Duke shorts with a pair of white tennis shoes. In return, I pulled his shirt over his head. He wore a Grateful Dead T shirt with Denim Jean shorts and black hiking boots. He smashes his lips against mine as soon as I let it fall out of my hand onto the ground next to my shirt. He begins sliding his tongue along my bottom lip until I open my mouth so his tongue can enter and entertwine with my own tongue. We continue slowly undressing each other until we're both naked. Never breaking the kiss for more than a moment he reaches down and grasps both of my thighs with his hands, he then lifts me up and I wrap my legs around his waist. He places one of his giant hands to cup my buttocks while his other hand glides up my back softly, leaving goosebumps in it's wake and until he reaches my hair. He tangles his fingers in my hair gathering it all in his hands and using it to pull my face closer, deepening the kiss further while he steps into the water. We continue making love in the water and as I find my release it's as if I can see fireworks behind my eyelids and I am glad we are the only ones here because I can't help but let out a scream at how violent and euphoric my climax feels at the moment. Jack finds his own release and we separate sliding down to sit in the cool, shallow water. Panting and struggling to catch my breath, I feel so euphoric and complete and absolute bliss. We continue to swim naked, eventually making it to look behind the waterfall. There's a portrait of a mermaid sitting on a long rock, painted into the mountainside behind the waterfall, completely hidden unless you go behind it. It's almost like a secret happy place for someone.
We swim back to where our clothes are and get out of the water. We sit on a rock in the sun until we're both dry enough to get dressed. After we dress and make our way back down the mountain, we go to a near by local restaurant for a nice romantic Italian style dinner before heading back to the hotel for the night.