first off, happy birthday nolan (and also happy peru independance day), don´t get quite as drunk as last year okay? you won´t have me there the next morning to be extra loud for you.
second of all, don´t forget to be checking my blog theres pictures and a couple of extra secret mini updates on there for you to check out.
third of all, if you happen not to get one of the updates - meaning you suddenly are reading #5 and never got 4, let me know or just go to the blog.
k, on to the good stuff.so i went to machu pichu yesterday ad the day beforE! it was awesome! we got up early to see the sunrise on top or MP, but of course it was cloudy again. that turned out to be ok because there weren´t as many people there at that early hour. as such, we got to take a group picture in the spot where the super famous photo is taken from heres ours. when i get home i´ll show you the famous version of it cause i can´t find it right now.
anyways we did the tour, lots of awesome stuff i can only tell you about in person. after the tour, we had free time to do some different hikes or just chill. o, background, i had to check my backpack at the gate because it was too large (jerks, didn´t make any of the girls´equally large backpacks hget checked!). i carried 2 waters with me and left a third i my pack. so i drank one on the tour and then had one for the hikes and one for the way home. k, back to the main story. we hiked to the sun gate- not cool structure, incredible view though.
on the way, boy scouts may have saved my life. from the years of hiking and such, my ´look at your feet the whole way´policy helped my notice a snake. we thyought it was just a little guy, but later the guide told us that traingle headed snakes are the most dangerous at MP. whoops... no one got hurt though. anyways, we got back down to mp and still had enough time to hike the inca bridge. this was quite plain and boring. but by this time, i had gone through my second water. when i got my backpak back, it turned out i was out of water. since everyone is at varying levels of sick, i decided itd be better not to ask for some from others. that meant i was out in the hot hot heat hiking and without water for more than 3 hours. thus i had a bad bad headache. at lunch i went and bought and drank almost all of a 2.5 Litre water bottle. you can guess where this is going. but actually you can´t. i took a pit stop before boarding the train (right after lunch) and then fig8ured i´d be fine cause theres a bathroom on the train. well, there was, but not exactly for use. for some reason, we were on the uber-tourist train on the way back. we got a snack, and there was a clothing shop in each car. well, from having talked to some of the workers of this train line, we knew they get an atrocius 1% commision of whatever they sell. (one sweater was 510 soles or roughly 170 dollars which is insane but thats what it was. however, this translates to the worker getting a whopping 5 soles per sweater. disgusting right!?) anyways, they were reallllllly trying to sell all this stuff and to push it even further, we radomly had a FASHION SHOW on the train.
now, not only did this urk us since we wanted to sleep so we could go out that night since we have no school today or tyomorrow, meaning the clapping and awkward techno music kept us awake, it also meant something extra special to me. a man and a woman were in the show, so each needed a place to change. one got the shop, the other took the bathroom. and this went on in each and every car. now, remember i just had 2/3 of a gallon of water. and i my timing luck followed suit with our sunrise luck. i had to go. bad. i asked if i could use the bathroom RIGHT before the show started and got an ¨someones in there¨ response. then, i had to wait for the 20 to 30 minute fashion show to finish. i don´t know if i have been that close to peeing my pants since diapers. it got so bad, i started timing the catwalks to see if i could slip in between the girl changing. 28, 26, 34, 31 seconds. there was no way i could make it. and the entire car was filled with old people clapping and laughing and generally enjoying the fashion show. all the while i was cursing the fashion industry, properu for selecting this train. at random moments the train stopped to let another traimn use the switch part of the track and i would´ve jumped off the train if i had known i had time. alll the while, the girl sitting next to me was going between almost crying of laughter, and geniunely worrying i wasn´t going to make it. FINALLLY it ended and i raced to the bathroom and everything worked out. and in hindsight, i guess its pretty funny even to me, and i´m sure i wouldve been dying of laughter if it WASN´t me at the time, but it was me.
right, so that was a long story about a nonmachu-pichu topic. pretty much nothing else exciting happening. or well, nothing THAT exciting.
today the family is taking me to a side of cusco that i haven´t been yet. and tonight we´re showing the urubamba kids how we party in cusco. some time today or tomorrow i guess i should study for the finals on wednesday... i did at least make notecards from which to study. we´ll see if i get to them.
i´m about5 out of time, so i´ll leave it at that.
i love you guys, a´nd i´ll see some of you in a week
Darren
o, mom, don´t forget to pack my sandals, and a bunch of clothing cause i´m tired of looking at what i´ve been wearing in peru.
and dad, what would you think of as my parting gift making a photo collage of pictures of me and different members of the family. i don´t know if i will be able to find photoshop here, or have the time, so i might have to ask you or mom to make a crude collage at home and post it online somewhere, but i´m thinking i can´t buy them anything from cusco cause they could just buy it themself. is that an unfair request? shaffer, if you don´t have a job and are just sitting at home, maybe i could ask you to do it... i´ll bring you lots of eruvian chocolates...? let me know
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