Highlights from the last 3 weeks of my life:
1. Melanie's visit, which included Beauty and the Beast on their form of broadway
Skydiving!
Two day trip to Bariloche in Patagonia. Heaven on earth.
loving having ten days of straight up sister time. do it.
2. Machu Picchu:
Katherine took lots of pictures, ones I plan to post as soon as I figure out how to work a flashdrive and get them from her computer.
Words cannot describe. I fell in love with Peru. Their culture, their sweet smiles, and pure spanish. Machu Picchu was a world away from everything I've known. It took Katherine and I an entire day to travel there, a day that included every form of transportation possible outside of a donkey. Exhausted but excited, we hiked Huayna Picchu, the mountain overlooking Machu Picchu, collected Machu Picchu passport stamps and took pictures with llamas and their droppings.
3. Discovering chocolate peanut butter ice cream:
Thank. You. Lord.
In a country where dark chocolate and peanut butter are two of the hardest things to come by, I couldn't believe the combo!
Discovered it is best eaten while watching back to back episodes of glee illegally online. Finn, Marry me.
4. A journey to Salta and Jujuy, the northwest of Argentina.
My friend Nick, also a fellow sconnie, and I decided to spend our time off of school from the national holiday backpacking in the rainforest like northern part of argentina.
Thank you national park Calilegua, we did enjoy our stage
Nick and I explored the salt flats of Jujuy, tried and do not reccommend llama jerky, finally located the national park (3 days after we had intended)and dominated it with salami and cheese sandwhiches for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Low lights would include staying in two of the shitties hostels I've ever experienced in my life, which I will forever blame nick for, and brushing my hair with a fork because I decided that I didn't need to pack a hairbrush.
Things I'm really looking forward to:
1. Excitement over the world cup here.
2. Michaela! Michaela! Michaela!
