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eptical so i checked all my bills one suggestion was to snap the bill by tugging on it to check if it was paper fake or cotton real as i was snapping one of the bills i ripped the corner off a 20 soles bill underestimated my own strength alison was probably thinking way to go amy it was kind of funny after the whole issue we d just gone through the ripped corner automatically made it undesirable unusable good grief posted by amy at 6 42 pm 10 comments labels friends international travel peru sunday october 28 2007 i m not dead yet due to my inability to regularly blog few people even know i m on the north american continent so this is for all of you who have checked my blog within the last six months and been annoyed that there is nothing new when i returned to kansas city from my fantastic trip to chile and peru april 2007 i went back to my recruiting job in overland park i was living with mom and dad ultra comfortable and trying desperately to figure out where i wanted to be i was too comfortable and if you ever get to the point where you re too comfortable and it s starting to bug you you know you need to seriously shake up your life i worked through the summer and tried to avoid being offered a permanent job as a recruiter i worked with nice people however 50 60 hours a week recruiting and interviewing and doing all that jazz really got old fast i was planning on moving somewhere but wanted to keep my job until the moving actually was a reality so i worked hard and a lot of hours but did my best to avoid any talk about hiring me on permanently the plan all along had been to move to washington dc i know people there love the city and just needed to be around other young professionals i was tired of feeling old in my social circles i am for the record not old and was getting tired of the wide eyed looks i occasionally received from the 20 and under crowd when i told them that not only had i graduated from college but i d also served a mission and worked for over two years with those quick high school math skills they hadn t had time to lose they realized very fast that all that means amy old so plunging myself into a young professionals atmosphere seemed like the right thing of course being an adept waffler i wasn t sure what to do jen put a little bug in my ear for boston i remember saying sure jen right but as i thought more and more on it i thought why not i definitely knew fewer people in boston and was excited for an opportunity to spread my wings a little further there s safety and comfort in going where you know people i needed to get uncomfortable as i thought more on boston it seemed like a good option and i am so glad that i chose it it has been one of the best changes of my life growing up i hated changed loathed it now i kind of relish it i love meeting new people and having new experiences i will try to be better about posting and let you know how my adventures in boston go again most of you know me and well let s just say don t hold your breath posted by amy at 7 45 pm no comments labels boston domestic travel lame excuse tuesday october 02 2007 she s alive hello friends and family anyone who still looks at this blog every now and then i m so sorry that i haven t done a good job of posting i can t guarantee that i will be better in the future but maybe when thing settle down a bit just maybe well the latest news i m a bostonian toward the latter half of august i packed up my car with all my belongings all that would fit in a camry at least and headed east it was an adventure i love a good adventure along the way i got to visit some wonderful friends and family i stopped in on becky jo to see how she was doing she had brain surgery recently and i am so happy to see that she s doing better years and miles may pass but things never really change with your best friend huh this is a picture with becky her husband brett and their latest addition spencer unfortunately it was a short visit i made a quick trip into omaha to see my friend sheri she was approximately 10 months pregnant at the time however i was unable to get any photos of her and bryce her little boy because my batteries were dead i m not sure she would have let me take a picture of her anyway i drove across iowa dark and stormy like it was an overcast day and the drive was long but it was beautiful my friend jenny was so sweet to put me up for the evening it was fun to see my nieces addy and brinley they re adorable i arrived in detroit the next night to the open arms of my sister jenn i wasn t sure if i was ever going to leave detroit really the roads were awful and it was pretty hot and humid but it was so much fun to spend time with jenn and taryn poor mike had to work some pretty ridiculous hours which meant that jenn and i had lots of time together taryn was the funnest yes the funnest she is such a doll i know this post is seriously lacking in substance and charm but it is after 2 a m please forgive me and i hope to do some more updating soon ish stay tuned posted by amy at 5 54 pm no comments labels domestic travel family friends solo adventures tuesday may 22 2007 i m too sacsay april 22 2007 continued there was a sign for sacsayhuaman pronounced and i m not joking sexy woman and we asked someone where those ruins were he told us over the hill so we climbed and rested climbed some more and couldn t find any ruins at the top of the hill we asked again and some ladies said no you need to go down the hill yeah the one on which we d just exhausted ourselves to climb it and take the bus alison always humoring me follows me on the short cuts that i find they never are short cuts though but alison continues to walk along with me anyway we finally got on a bus and were dropped off at the road leading to sacsayhuaman we passed a man weaving a brightly colored poncho on a loom takes him 8 days to weave the fabric he said along the way there were canchas soccer fields surrounded by sunken ruins taxistas taxi drivers with their taxis parked along the canchas were drinking beer makes ya feel safe on the road huh we arrived at the grassy expanse in front of the ruins and sat there trying to avoid the hawkers and tour guide offerings alison pulled out a set of headphones attached to nothing and listened to music while i buried my nose in my book the ruins at sacsayhuaman were pretty incredible three tiers of rock walls zig zag along the grass the stones fit perfectly one into another it was amazing all done with out concrete or mortar just stone upon stone fitted to perfection maybe a jigsaw puzzle of the gods we climbed up and took a good look at the sun calendar it was high above cusco and the view was incredible we were exhausted though we had walked about seven hours that day with that in mind we considered taking a taxi back to town but i didn t want to pay eight soles so we walked it turned out to be a very pleasant downhill 15 minute walk on our way down in san blas we were solicited by two competing restaurants literally across the street from each other we opted for tuco the restaurant by which i had been solicited our goal that night was to eat traditional peruvian cuisine peru has nothing on chile for sophistication however their cuisine is without a doubt superior to chile s i opted for the alpaca a la plancha alpaca steak and alison brave soul that she is ordered cuy guinea pig the salads were amazing we d really been missing fresh vegetables that was probably the highlight of the meal i tried inca cola the flavor of peru and it wasn t too bad finally the big moment arrived the main course the alpaca steak was a grayish rectangle accompanied with slightly soggy fries nothing too exciting or worth writing home about alison s cuy though well a picture speaks 1000 words just take a look it was one of the most disgusting things i had ever seen she ordered a half cuy cut right down the middle from head to tail it laid flat de haired cooked with a brown glaze on it there was a head no eyese no teeth and a front paw with claws ugh i still have fleeting disgusting thoughts of that little clawed cooked paw moving up and down trying to lift its dead cooked corpse off the plate mmmm eat up it was divided in 3 parts head upper body and lower body alison bravely peeled back the skin of the upper body and tried to find some meat let s just put it this way half a guinea pig contain much meat she cut a little piece off and tried it i tasted a teeny bit ugh it tasted like it d been cooked in the same oil used to fry the trout they were advertising that night not at all to my liking i ate my alpaca and fries and alison tried some of mine when javier the guide university student at puca pucara cornered us out there he told us he was also a chef talk about a renaissance man he told us he would give us a discount if we came to his restaurant that night we asked what kind of food they prepared and specifically asked about cuy and alpaca he assured us that they served cuy and real alpaca he warned us about restaurants that dishonestly serve regular mea rather than alpaca alpaca meat he informed us should be different he said it should be soft like your own flesh alison without missing a beat responded well i ve never tried my own flesh it was hilarious javier didn t get it so my alpaca was a little tough and chewy maybe it wasn t alpaca but it was different than anything else i d tried alison couldn t finish her cuy and i couldn t blame her i tried another larger piece just to make sure and yep it still tasted gross the thought of that half guinea pig on a plate still gives me the heebie jeebies we checked out the skull flipped it over and morbidly checked out the brains ick as we picked at the cuy the waiter told us that you normally eat it like you would ribs or a chicken leg just pick it up in your hands and dig in skin and all blech after dessert of fruit i don t understand how south americans think that fruit is dessert for alison and a panqueque con dulce de leche for me we walked back to the hostel and got ready for bed i felt like the walking dead i was bushed dinner had been so hilarious because we were tired and because alison had half a rodent on her plate as soon as we got back to the hotel though we crashed and it was only 8 30 good night posted by amy at 11 34 pm 4 comments labels friends international travel peru saturday may 12 2007 peru don t forget the time change april 22 2007 sunday morning i woke up to darkness and the sound of rain trickling outside it was so dark outside and my alarm clock said that we had at least two more hours good i was too tired so the alarm went off at 6 00 and we got up we had a lot to accomplish that morning before church at 8 00 a m after the shower fiasco see the previous post we got ready in the bedroom and it was pitch black outside i asked alison how much time i had and glancing at my alarm clock she told me it was 6 37 so i had a little more than 20 minutes to pack up and get myself ready for an entire day of church and excursion i grabbed my alarm clock and it slipped out of my hands i asked alison to ch eck her watch and tell me the exact time to reset the clock she said quarter to six huh i had forgotten to change my alarm clock from chile time to peru time so we had gotten up a whole hour early good grief we had a good laugh about it but i really could have used that extra hour of sleep in cusco you can barely go more than four steps in the plaza de armas without someone offering to sell you something shoe shine cheap reproduction paintings dolls their llama it gets a little old first thing we needed to do that morning at 7 30 and before 8 00 a m church was go to the train station to buy our tickets to go to aguas calientes otherwise known as machu picchu pueblo we left alison s debit card in my suitcase and decided that i would pay for the train tickets on my credit card however we learned that they don t take credit cards at the train station are you kidding me i attempted to take money out of the atm machine there but it wouldn t recognize my card 8 00 a m church was looking less and less likely we walked back up avenida del sol the main drag where the banks were i finally found one after numerous attempts that would accept my debit card annoyed we took a taxi back to the train station and had definitely missed the beginning of 8 00 a m church bummer we bought our train tickets which were rather expensive they really suck everything they can out of the tourists and the girl who sold us the tickets refused to give us change and no one takes big bills i was so annoyed so we decided to go to church at 10 00 in the mean time we got our breakfast at a small family run store alison asked the woman how she could identify fake money because it is a rampant problem in peru and got a 15 minute lesson on how to recognize the falso meanwhile not listening i was trying to decide if the cheese they had in the refrigerator case refrigerator case that was probably unplugged was still edible the bread wasn t as good as chilean bread and the cheese tasted like dirty feet but my mango juice was good and i was carrying my trusty 2 5 liters of bottled water to drown my cold so that helped we went to take some photos near the statue of pachacutec the inka king and founder of machu picchu and the sun god fountain on avenida del sol as we killed time waiting until we needed to go to church typical to south america the street signs are screwy one side of the street has numbers completely unrelated to the ones on the opposite side despite the confusion we were able to find the building where church was to start at 10 a m strange though were the black tarps covering the inside of the gates and the newspaper covering the windows of the front doors hmmm we waited doubtfully until 10 05 a m and not a soul had shown up to open the gates although one man passing by did ask me to send someone from the church to see him when i told him i wasn t a missionary he apologized shook my hand and walked away you could still smell the alcohol a good 20 seconds after he left we were both very bummed about missing church that day we went back to our hotel changed our clothes had a little prayer and spiritual thought and headed out we were both pretty stressed out the day before because of unfamiliarity with the city and the fact that we hadn t really seen anything yet the prices surprised us and the fact that we didn t know what to see stressed us out too we took a taxi to the bus station and paid to go to pisac to see some of the ruins on the road to pisac it dawned on us that we didn t have enough time to go all the way to pisac and really explore it and all the ruins outside cusco what do we do should we squeeze past every person in the insanely crowded bus to get off in tambomachay the last ruins right before the long ride to pisac or just not make a big deal about it save ourselves from having to displace half the bus as we crawl out ...