This past week seemed to go by fast. Some days seem to go by slow, but in the big picture of it all, all of the days have gone by pretty quickly. I have classes Monday through Friday, two classes Monday through Thursday, and then one class on Friday. I am enjoying my classes so far. The Spanish classes are a bit difficult, but they are full of fun information. I do like both of my History classes. They are kind of an add on to the class I took last semester with Reynolds. So it is quite interesting.
So I don't have any pictures from the actual week, all of these pictures are from this weekend. On Friday we went to the Inca museum, which was quite interesting, but I don't have any pictures from there.
On Saturday we went on a day excursion to Maras and Moray. I do apologize, some of the pictures are not of the best quality. They were taken through the bus window.
I thought I would include a picture of the mannequins here in Cusco. These are not so creepy, but majority of them are SUPER creepy.
This was on the outskirts of Cusco. It is just kind of a little market on the side of the road. People sell food, homemade objects, and just random things.
There are a lot of these around. They are just paintings on walls.
This is a potato farm, I think. We took a bus with a guide that was overly generous with the facts of everything. So I don't remember everything that he said.
This is at the top of the mountain.
This is in Moray. This is only part of the group. A few of the other students didn't come on this trip.
These are the Inca ruins. It was really quite amazing to see. This is a top view, it is a rather large place.
These are just normal little things found in a shop. Well I wouldn't really call them shops because they are just in the open air with little roofs over them.
On the way to Maras. Shows about how high we were, the clouds were quite close.
This is Maras. It is the only natural salt mine in the Andean Mountains.
These were really cute. I didn't buy any though because I was scared they would break. They are made of salt.
This was one of the canals. I think the guide said that every table as a canal that runs by it. You're allowed to taste it though, however, I did not.
This is Cusco from one of the higher roads.
Today we went on a small adventure. We went to one of the mountains right by the city that is called Sacsayhuaman. Which sounds like "Sexy woman." It is a Quechua word, which from what I understood today means "full condor." This is looking down at Cusco. On the side of the mountain it says "Viva El Peru."
This is part of the group.
Also there were slides, they were fun, but then I got to feeling sick again, so took it easy.
The following pictures are also from this weekend, but I had been to these places before. This is one of the markets. It is called San Pedro.
This is the chicken section.
Flowers, I did not mind this aisle. It smelled pretty.
These are kind of gross. The next two are worse. The smell on these aisles are terrible though. And people just normally go and buy food from here.
Yes, this is a pig's body.
And yes, these are pigs' heads. Just sitting out. I took this picture and then had to leave to go throw up. I don't know how the people can work in there.
To follow the nasty pictures are some pictures of food.
This is the pizza I love. It is called Meat Crazy pizza.
This is the first salad that I have had here in Peru. I ate it yesterday.
This is what one of the shops looks like. Well what most of them look like. Some just sell sweaters, or blankets, or jewelery. This is my favorite one. The man that owns it is so nice. I have a picture of him somewhere.
This is in one of the markets. Just thought it was random.
Thought I would end on a fun note. I've been missing spicy food, so I went to Chili's (Yay there is a Chili's here) and got me a basket of chips and hot sauce.
Anyways, enough for tonight.
Hope all is well with everyone.
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