Our day was bright and early with our wake up call at 5 to catch our flight to Cuszo  . We have all taken our altitude sickness medication. I’m sure the Saskatchewan pharmacies must be smiling this week based on how many products our Peru mommas brought with us. We are prepared for anything with altitude sickness medication, Imodium, pepto bismol, Advil, Tylenol, gravel, Zantac, peroxide, bandaids, Benadryl and poop sprayer. 😳. These mommas are serious about being prepared. 😊
We toured Saqsaywaman, which when said in Spanish sounds almost exactly like sexy woman. Pretty funny stuff until you learn about the history of the place where Falcons were satisfied with the sacraficed llamas, alpacas, and people which was done on June 21 to celebrate their winter solstice. The Incas made an incredible structure that we were allowed to climb on. Slowly due to the altitude. 

We had interesting meal of cold pasta salad, quinoa with mushrooms and a delicious dessert made of organic (that isn’t what made it good 😜. Pam and I almost couldn’t eat it because of that dirty word) berries that smelled like Christmas that were supposed to be naturally good for high blood pressure. 
We also toured the Temple of the Sun. The kids all seemed so into it which was awesome to see. Our guide, Washington, did a fabulous job today with lighting the history bug in all of us. 

I had Paris tell me today that she wishes all our history/social classes could be trips like this as this trip and the tours that are included make it come alive. Finally. It brought tears to my eyes and made all the preparation and worry about these trips all worthwhile. 😊 Little comments like that is makes a teacher’s heart shine and melt all at the same time. 😍

Interesting tidbit:  Lima had cats roaming freely, while Cusco has dogs everywhere. We have been told to not touch any animal ever here as they could have rabies. 

On our way to the Sacred Valley, we stopped at a roadside stand to take some beautiful pictures of the incredible landscape and purchase some wonderful alpaca products and other little gadgets. Trust me Allen. I won’t bring home too many blankets. 😜

We are staying in  wonderfully quaint hotel in the valley tonight – Willka Rumi Hotel. It is very small and we had to walk in the dark to get here, but it is so cute. 

13000 steps or 5.8 miles today. 

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