Viva Peru!

I want to thank everyone that made my Peru experience complete. For the wonderful lessons I was taught by the children, and the friends that stood by me through it all. For the family that took care of me, and the amazing people of Peru.  Viva Peru!

Saying Goodbye to Diego and Mary!

 My Momma Mary!

 My last set of roommates! ( Thanks Katy, Katy for being there the whole time with me, I will miss you)

 Me Casa!

 My neighborhood dog that always greeted us from the roof!

 Our cat CC(cotton candy) who roamed the streets....but always looked clean?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Last Banana Pop Ever! Life is Sad!

Adventure is Out There!

Going to the zoo to say the least was quite the experience! Katy and I have literally tried to go to the zoo for 6 weeks(since we have been here) but for one reason of another it hasn't worked out until now and boy were we happy!

It has always been my dream to wear an adventure hat while at a zoo. Happily I was able to live this dream today thanks to my good friend Karen. The "Park of Legends" really was legendary, if our group of 13 mainly white girls group wasn't enough of an exhibt(literally, we had so many pictures taken of us) then put two adventure hats and add some loud english, we were sure a funny site to see!  It was such a fun experience and even though we were unable to see lions and tigers, the baby goats were a good replacement! haha Also we were able to see fake animals, and I took a picture of a goat jumping but cut off his head(I waited so long for that photo it was quite a laugh)!

Oh just the fake animals at the zoo

Adventure hats at there finest! haha

Baby goats...So sad his head got cut off ha

Finally we made it to the zoo! Katy and I

Peru Won!!!

Today Peru played Equador in Peru! So happy that Peru won the futball game, sure was tons of fun. Now I am sleepy though and want to go to bed. It is a pretty wild experience if I say so myself.

Just hiking in the Jungle

Sketchy Bridge that had holes in it.

Beautiful Morning.

I llama you!

Beautiful time to think on top of the world

The little village at the bottom of Machu Picchu that we hung out at!

Mountain Majesty

After a 21hr. bus ride, a 6 hr. car ride, a 2 hr. hike in the jungle and waking up at 5a.m. in the morning we were able to experience a world wonder today.  No words or even pictures will be able to even come close to doing Machu Picchu justice.  You are able to see 300 degrees around the mountain, and boy is it beautiful.  After sleeping through our alarm for the hike at 4¨00 in the morning, Laura (my friend from Australia) caught a bus up to Machu Picchu. Not only was the time there spent hanging out with llamas, but we were able to sit on what we like to call the top of the world and just sit, think and relax. I am pretty sure I only said two phrases the whole day, ¨Wow, this is beautiful¨ and ¨What the,.... can you believe this?¨ and as I sit in this tiny beautiful jungle town I able to think of how small I am in the grand scheme of things, but how much one person makes the difference.

P.S. I will upload a couple pictures when I am back down from this mountain.

Today I was able to watch a grandpa teach his grandson how to ride a bike, a family play soccer together and a flock of bird fly together. People say that perfect days only come around every now and then, well I would like to disagree with that. That is the problem because everyday is a perfect one, we sometimes just forget to see the beauty in the day.  We forget to cherish the laughter, or to remember the beauty we first saw in our surroundings, when we really stop and realize all that we have, we will find we are enormously blessed! As Bob Trythall taught me Thoughts -Attitude-Behavior-Results!