Peru!

We’re almost home. Minneapolis to be exact. We left Lima last night around 11:00 and slept for most of the flight. We even got a chance to finish watching the movies we started on the flight down. We arrived to Newark about 20 minutes late and thought that we had missed our connecting flight. But thankfully after running through customs, immigration, and security we made it to our plane! (It was delayed due to some mechanical problems) We waited on the plane for another 30 minutes so the airport people could bring us milk for our Honey Nut Cheerios and then finally took off.

Now we’re waiting for our ride so we can get to Green Bay. We’ll be back around midnight tonight.

Our last day in Lima was fantastic. I’m a little too tired to tell all the details right now. But I will say that it included gorging ourselves on a mountain of desserts, paragliding off the cliffs of Miraflores, and playing in the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

The first stage of my nasty legs. These are huge painful bug bites. Anne and Liz are probably tired of hearing me try to self diagnose myself, but I like to think it´s Dengue Fever.

Cuy, or Guinea Pig, a little hairy and questionable.

We made the mistake of taking a look underneath. Ribs and much much more.

We named him Charlie.

This is from the monestary that we visited. These are barbed wire tools the nuns used to hurt themselves. Think The Davinci Code.

Sorry, I couldn´t get it to turn the right way. But this is for Ken. It´s the bathroom that Saint Ana used. We´ve used many squats, but never had the pleasure of taking a picture.

A picture from the monestary

I just wrote a post last night, but it´s now 6:00 a.m., everyone in the hostel is asleep except for me and the orange cat that I´ve named "Calabaza," and to the best I can tell by looking out the ... [Continue reading this entry]

After a harrowing 6-hour bus ride from Puno to Arequipa, during which Liz and I had the privilege of sitting in the first row of the two-story bus, poised perfectly to view every pedestrian, sheep and taxi we barely missed, ... [Continue reading this entry]

Here are a few pictures from our trek and the last few days.

This is the entrance to the Inca Trail. We look like sheep being led to slaughter.

[Continue reading this entry]

Throughout much of the trek, I both looked and felt like an old lady. On the last day, the walking sticks that were my saving grace going both up and down the VERY steep and VERY uneven stone steps ... [Continue reading this entry]

In the weeks leading up to our trip, I admit to feeling a little apprehensive about traveling with two girls young enough to be my daughters (admittedly, I would have had to have given birth at an early age, but ... [Continue reading this entry]

A cool Peruvian guy showed us a 13 sided Incan stone. Our travel book says that the most is 12.

Pisac Market!

[Continue reading this entry]

Hey everyone,

Tomorrow morning (way too early) we´re leaving for our hike. We had a meeting at the trek company today and met everyone else in our group and found out a bunch of details about it. It´s gonna be brutal. ... [Continue reading this entry]

yesterday we did a lot of shopping i got a ton of clothes and anne got suckered by the kids selling paintings on the street a total of 7 times. we climbed san blas which was a definite preparation ... [Continue reading this entry]