to talk about = sunrise, fiesta, sick, learnig about inca,
so i went to the soccer game, that was cool, for time sake ill summarize - the home team looked horrible but won in very exciting fashion. megan, i{ll tell you about it when i get home.
i got really sick on monday and tuesday i got better enough i convinced myself i should go on the "best sunrise of your life" trip. i learned that it was one of 2 places in the world where the sun rises red. (i don{t r4emember how much of each story i{ve told you and i{m on a time crunch like always so forgive the backtracking).
so ya, i went. 4 hours in the car with the girls and my bro and sis and one of theirs bro who is reallllllllly a creeper (mom, that means hes the sort of boy you wouldn{t want your daughter to even know). not fun stuff for the most part. so, we got there and they have fiesta until 4 in the morning while you wait for the sun. so, i could talk for hours about the fiesta but i have 20 min left before the cafe closes, so i{ll be kinda breif. when i get back i{ll show you photos. no time to upload them. so we weent to a plaza type thing and they had lots of dancing and live bands playing. they were all dressed up in very intri}cate indiginous outfits (later explained) paying tribute to the virgen of puacartambo (same one as virgen of carmen, etc. just diff name). then later they set up structures with really primative and therefore extra cool fire works(fuega artificial). then we went to two local partys, one a weddding which we just walked in, danced with people for 15 or 20 minutes and then left and the other i don{t know what it was about. eventually it was time to go up to the mountain. 2 more hours in the car. at this point we convinced the other brother (not mine) to be somewhat quite. when we got to the top the star gazing was breathtaking. not a cloud in the sky. nor a single polluting light except wehn another headlight ar4rived and then shot off. but i was soo tired i went to sleep for an hour maybe before the sun. when our alarms went off we put on every bit of clothing we brought - and yes that means me too!- and went out to wait for the sun. well, we got up about an hour early. and it was unbelievably cold, even FOR ME!!! so we waited and waited and waited. it was at this point i realized i was still sick, and the baggage that comes along with that surfaced as well. so we waited forever. and finally we reailized it was daylight and theere had been no sun. at this pont it dawned on us that what we were looking at - the brightness on the horizon - was not the sun under the horizon or mountain or whatever, i the was sun behind clouds. the only possible thing that could block the amazingest sunrise of my life, pícked today to ruin. i was so angry, but i was so cold i didn{t even get to trhow a proper fit.
heres a picture of the sunset we saw, and if you{re a cheater and want to see what the sun would have and should have looked like, check it out here: http://www.biosci.missouri.edu/avianecology/merkord/images/chris_at_tres_cruces.jpgsucks doesn{t it! on the way down, all 8 hours (cause we got stuck on the road for an extra 2), and all of yesterday and the morning today i felt really misrable - diarea, vomit, your basic not so good time. so essentially, i can summarize the trip as this: an adventure of misery, sickness, an absent sun and 100% the right decision to have gone!
don{t have time to tell you much of what i learned about inca and the culture, only that its cool stuff.
um, sorry i have to cut short,
love you guys,
Darren
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