So I wasn't that excited to go along...I mean when you only have ONE weekend free in the whole month of December, who wants to be gone for it??? BUT...I decided to suck it up and make the best of it. Jeff wanted to "treat" me to a hostal, located outside a village about 2 hours from home. It's a hostal owned by an Italian couple, and is on the way to the Incan ruins of Choquequirao. He wanted to show the boys and I what a great place it is, and to just get away as a family--I shouldn't have been such a baby about being gone from home, because it was such a great night away as a family!
The drive is a bit dangerous, dirt roads with severe drop offs on the side...made more difficult on our trip by thick fog and rain. But we did manage to get out of the rain for a bit and take some pictures of some villagers plowing their field with oxen. It's amazing to see the oxen plowing and then someone going behind them dropping the seeds in the rows by hand. What hard work!
It rained a bit the night we got there, but the next morning we were able to get a good 4 hour hike in with the boys before the rain started again. We hiked towards the ruins (which are a longs ways off) and enjoyed some fun times of singing, collecting rocks, capturing centipedes, collecting stink bugs (fun for the boys, not as much for me), and just spending time together as a family.
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