Machu Picchu Trip

You may be wondering why I am waiting until now to post some stuff about our recent trip to Machu Picchu (Ecuador, Peru and the Galapagos)…

Well, I have posted a lot of pictures on my SmugMug website as well as putting an Adobe Spark page together (which kind of sucks) and a movie trailer together.

I will post the links later in this post.

Okay….The trip was awesome! One of the better OAT Trips that we have taken.

Peru was cool, Ecuador was great and the Galapagos were awesome.

We sampled a lot of food including guinea pig (Cuy). That was the first and last time that I will eat that rodent.

After we took a bite or two, our trip leader, Fredy told us it was finger food. Little too late buddy. The skin was tough and full of bones. I sat there very politely and crunched away. I think that everybody was doing the same. Needless to say, there were plenty of leftovers for the bus driver and the rest of the neighborhood.

For some reason, they prefer the black ones. I really don’t need to know why. I really don’t care. I really don’t want to think about it anymore.

Speaking of guinea pig, I am going to stop now as I need to make dinner.

Until the next post, go to our new website: http://eandmphoto.com - this site has links to pretty much everything we do on line (including our blogs) so you might as well bookmark it now.

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