Feliz Navidad!

Posted by Serina Hardiman

Hi all! Wishing you a very Merry Christmas from Cusco. We figured out our money blip and I´m going to fess up it was actually a mistake on my part. I was putting in the wrong PIN but am happy to say that I still have some photographic memory left (I´m sure it´ll all disappear when I hit 30 in 5 days) and it came in handy the final attempt at the bank. YAY!

Chris and I spent a lot of time roaming around the town into different districts. We stopped in at the Inka Museo which was quite incredible but the only pictures we could take were at the entrance. There is some amazing history here.

From Beautiful Q'osco

We´re in the process of uploading images to our Picasa album right now so we´ll be sure to link them all later.

We did run into a bit of a surprise yesterday, though. After one of our stints around town we came back to the hotel to drop off some stuff and take a breather and all of a sudden our hotel room phone rang. It was a message from our front desk that my Aunt Debra made it to Cusco and is staying up the street from us! We knew she was trying to hop flights on standby and figured with all the holiday travel that she wasn´t going to make it!

So we walked over to her place that has a breathtaking view of the city and surrounding mountains and picked her up to have dinner. We took her through the market on the Plaza de Armas and got to watch a real pro haggle!

Today we intend on taking advantage of the holiday quietness to get more pictures. We found out yesterday that the best way to get street vendors´attention is to start taking pictures. We´ve close to exhausted ourselves with ¨No, Gracias!¨ but on a good note we both got to hold a baby llama! I want to bring one home with us!

We are prepping ourselves to start our Inca Trail hike tomorrow and are both extremely excited! We stopped off at Peru Treks and they were so nice and even gave us complimentary santa hats we´re to take with us on the hike.

We´ll try to stop on once more before the hike as we´ll be pretty silent from the 26th through the 29th but will be sure to bring back more and more photos! We´re thinking of you and wish you all the best for Christmas!