Well, it is almost December. Now you are probably thinking about Christmas, because it is only 26 days away today. To me it seems closer and at the same time further because it is 3 houses away. Close, but far.
We went to see The Crimes Of Grindelwald in Spanish. It was really cool. I would not recommend going to that theatre in Cusco, it was small and stuffy. Also it was a mall. Chinook centre kind of. Not so big! I would suggest just turning on Spanish subtitles in you own home.
If you know me, you know how much I love Harry Potter movies and books, so of course I am going to end up getting myself the play script when it doesn't cost $81.51 so I can see what happened because I didn't really understand very much in the Spanish movie... 😭 It costs SO much!
We went to some Catacombs yesterday. We were not able to take any pictures of the bones, but it was really cool. We saw he 3rd largest painting in the world. It was the largest in South America! We did not take a picture, it might damage the oils. It was so big it had over 700 people in it. It took up a whole wall in the cathedral. It had Nuns, Bishops and Priests. It had everyone in that Church at the time. Wow, right? The bone were kind of creepy. In some of the tombs, it smelled weird and was very humid. Also our tour guide kept on laughing in this creepy way whenever we were inside tombs or going inside one. I am fairly sure that he only knew what to say and nothing else in English except "I don't know about that." Anyway, look at these pictures of the courtyard!
Wow!
Amazing, right?
Panorama shot.
Where did we go? Here!
We ate more picarones, and they tasted good. They were light and fluffy, and we got as much syrup as we wanted!
I don't look happy here. Wonder what went wrong.
A few days later, we went to El Mercado De San Pedro. We saw corn, cheese and people. Normal day.
Corn.
Cheese.
Random People. Normal day.
For some reason, seeing Alpacas and Lambs on leashes is a daily activity for us now. Terran and I still point every single Lamb and Alpaca out. We just aren't used to it yet. We also see Llamas often. Alpacas and Llamas are SO cute! The video is of an Alpaca. You might see a brown spotted Llama though.
I wanted to write a little about some of the people we have met here in Cusco. As I have mentioned before we are lucky to find fast friends in our local church congregation. We still have one more Sunday here in Cusco and thought we would take the opportunity then to say good bye to our friends and take pictures too. Well, at the end of our church meeting we found out that next week church is cancelled all over Peru due to elections. Apparently a lot of shops, and churches do not meet since people have to travel back to vote in their designated areas, and no one goes to church anyway, thus we were not able to get pictures of all the many people that have shown us kindness here in Cusco, but here are a few: Maija met two really nice girls at church, we could not find Aby, but here is Maija with her friend Flor. They kept asking Maija how to say things in English
Monday morning we said good bye to our nice home in Cusco, and headed to Urubamba. We walked down to the paradero, and took a "colectivo" (a large 20 person van), paid our 6 soles/per person, and rode for about an hour and a half to the town of Urubamba. According to Wikipedia, Urubamaba or Urupampa in the Quechua spelling means "flat land of spiders"....poor Maija. (We didn't tell her yet... she can wait until we leave or she reads this blog post to find out). The Sacred Valley is much warmer than Cusco, and is full of flowers. A beautiful little town
So candid :) I like the bit about the guy that didn't really speak English. Spencer and I both laughed.
ReplyDeleteI love the video of you and the alpaca, Maija! I need to figure out how to teach my alpacas to do that.
ReplyDeleteI love your new normal Maija!!
ReplyDeleteI love the video Maija!
ReplyDeleteMaija, I love the pictures of the monastery! Wow!!!
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