Machu Picchu!

Hello everyone!

Kelly and I survived a very adventurous and fun weekend! We went to Machu Picchu and had a blast! We left Friday at around 10:30 in the morning and walked for 6 hours and 38 minutes to Aguas Calientes, which is the town outside of Machu Picchu. The walk was long and tiring but what a fun experience. We stayed in a very nice hotel Friday and Saturday night and woke up Sunday morning and hiked up to Machu Picchu which was an hour hike straight up the whole time….great workout! The ruins were something neither of us had ever seen before the Incas were some amazing people! We spent about 4 hours in the park and decided to take the bus down because we decided we had done enough physical activity for a few days. Our train to go back to Ollanta didn’t leave until 9:45 so we went to get some food and hung out at the train station till we left. We also found chocolate milk which was very exciting for both of us! It was my first train ride ever…it was fun we were just tired from the busy weekend. Our train arrived at kilometer 82 around 11:30 than we had to take a bus to Ollanta. We got home around 12:15 am. We both showered when we got home and the showers were very hot which is very rare here! Than we headed to bed because we had to work yesterday. La posta yesterday was very busy with a lot of pregnant women and new babies. We helped a lot in triage which is not very exciting but we got a lot patients to be seen which was good! After work we headed home to do our laundry which is always an experience especially since we had a lot of sweaty clothes from our journey! We had alpaca for dinner tonight for the first time! It was good tasted like most meat just slightly tougher. We are supposed to be trying guinea pig soon I am not so sure how I feel about this! We are going to the school again this week to give fluoride! I really enjoy this because the kids are so adorable and make me smile! We are also teaching our first health education class to the community…the topic is illness prevention and what to do when you get sick. Kel and I are both excited about this because the people here just need education on a lot of info! Well I think that is about all that is happening with us! We are still both loving it here!

Love and miss you all!

Megan