Hotel Casablanca Cusco

... I was dancing, though, I stepped on a
chair and hurt my foot really badly! I didn’t pay attention to the pain. The
teacher taught me a little bit of salsa and I actually danced with him for a
bit! That was so funny! It was a little awkward/weird, but it was fun! One more
adventure to add to the book!





When the professor left, I sat down and inspected my foot. I
found that I really hurt the bottom of my foot ...

... forty-five minutes in the hot springs, Melanie and I decided to go back to the hotel so that we could get washed up a little and go out to dinner with the large group.

When we got back to the hotel I wanted to take a shower because the hot springs made us smell like chicken – it was gross. I went into the bathroom and turned on the water but it was completely cold!!! I turned the right knob so that the water would come out and turned the left ...

... that I wasn’t bothering them, Devin admitted that I was bothering him. He said he was just joking but I know that he wasn’t. That really hurt my feelings. I already feel stupid in that class in comparison to him, Jasmine, and Andrea and that made me feel even worse. At that point I just quit worrying about every word and just tried to get the general idea. I figured I would work on reading more of it on my own to be sure of the storyline. I actually ...

... to take a taxi to go to the market at San Blas. We took a taxi there but by the time we arrived (about 6:15), all the vendors were gone. There were still quite a few stores open, though, so we looked in them and went shopping. I got a few postcards of the huge beautiful Catholic church in Cusco and a spoon for my spoon collection! J The girls and I walked back from San Blas all the way to the bus station on the Avenida El Sol by Serpost. We got a taxi from ...

... like a ****. I made the joke that I thought it was her ******* all along (when we were riding horses) because there were still ******* noises coming from her and there was no horse to lay the blame on! It was funny. We all laughed. Then we learned the word for person who ***** a lot, which is supisiki. Now Melanie's nickname is supisiki.

We looked at pictures after dinner, wrote in our journals, and went to bed! I didn't go to bed until 3:00, though, because ...

... cereals, water, whatever they can find to survive... tough is not the word.

Aguas Calientes and Macchu Picchu,

Following day we catch the train upto the final town before Macchu Picchu, bed early as early rise at 5 to get the 1st bus up for the sunrise.

5:15am, realise we are not the only ones hoping to catch the sunrise...huge queue for bus but we on the bus at 5:30 and what a drive up the mountain.... getting all excited at what lies ahead. Nothing ...

... with homework, played soccer and games with the girls. The girls taught both of us numerous hand games that go with songs where you´re clapping, patting hands, hopping and spinning in circles before falling to the floor. The girls loved teaching us. It is amazing how little they all get by on and makes you realize how much we take for granted. Ended the day about 6:30, back to visit with the family and off to bed...........miss everyon

... conductors first put on a fashion show where they dressed up in different clothes, shawls and sweaters mostly, and pranced up and down the aisles, then put on costumes like Fasching in Germany and danced around for us with peruvian music all the while. Very enjoyable and a lot of fun although it kept us from looking out the windows at the amazing scenery passing by.



Our taxi ...

... in Cusco I reckon it can´t top Angkor or the temples of Central America. Instead I tried to book a bike trip down the MegAvalanche course at Ollantaytambo but the cheapest I found was $90 for one run with a **** old hardtail bike, $150 with a full suspension of which the make and model they wouldn´t disclose. So no chance I was doing that. Instead we just chilled in Cusco and saved money on our daily budget anyway. We checked out the market which was very calm ...