we´re feeling fantastic!

it´s been awhile, a lot to catch you up on. two of us have been constipated and the other two have gotten diarrhea. two of us got altitude sickness, one got sick and gave it to the other and one puked at a bus station due to motion sickness. can you guess who did what?
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we´re all much better now and are having a great time on the tour with our group. our group is very interesting, a lot of young people and everyone speaks english. there are a lot of english people, i really fancy their accents and will try very hard to come home with one. there´s a canadian couple from red deer, alberta and their last name is Sale, i have a strong suspicion that one of them is related to Jamie Sale of the figure skating couple Sale and Pellieter. They´re extremely nice and we relate to them the most. The cliques within the group are usually the British versus the nonBritish. There are two old couples who we refer to as the old couples but we like them a lot. They met each other ten years ago on a similiar vacation and have been meeting up to travel together every year since then, they´ve been to the most off beaten paths like tibet, pakistan, burma, etc and they tell the most dramatic stories of their adventures. There´s also the ´frat boys´, two boys our age who seem to be meandering through life pointlessly. The ´spice girls´are refined english girls who sit in the back of the bus singing wannabe while the rest of us try to sleep.

We flew to cuzco from lima many days ago. cuzco is a very charming town, much better and safter than lima. we´ve bought a lot of stuff, aliceT has everything alpaca and i can´t wait to show you guys my peruvian gear. We also ate alpaca meat and it tastes like tasty pork. Macchu Piccu was incredibly beautiful and we traveled 7 hrs to get there and back that day, so glad we didn´t do the inka trail. then we saw some ruins but the best part of the trip so far has to be the amazon jungle. when we arrived we were greated parrots and we had our own little bungalows with mesh walls. the lodge had a big cafe, games room, a hippo/pig pet that acted like a dog, but there was no hot water so only two of us took showers because the other two were too afraid of the cold....can you guess who? we went to see monkeys on monkey island, went pirana fishing but caught nothing, went hiking and went out on a boat at night to try to spot alligators. it was very eerie to be sitting on a small canoe in total darkness in the middle of the amazon river. we flew back to cuzco earlier today and continued shopping. we´re leaving for puno and lake titicaca tomorrow morning, in the next few days we´ll be staying in huts with our indian parents and they´re going to dress us up and make us dance. you will probably hear from us again a few days from now when we´re in Bolivia.

the dogs here are amazing, none of them are on a leash and they´re all so obediant. i love them all. oh and at the airport today, a few peruvian men came up to adrienne and aliceL and asked if they could take a picture with them. we´re like celebrities here!

don´t worry, we´re doing really great and having lots of fun. miss you all. pictures will come eventually.