Pictures!

Looking out over Lake Titicaca from Amantani Island

A floating island at Lake Titicaca

The day I got back from Lake Titicaca, there was a festival in San Salvador for the Virgen del Rosario, so we took the children to the Plaza in San Salvador to watch a parade of people dancing in colorful clothes, wigs, and masks with big noses.

Family Picture: Left to Right - Fortunata, Mariska, me, and Ricardo with Yonyo in the background on Fortunata's birthday.

Every Wednesday, Projects Abroad has a social for its volunteers.  In past weeks, we have had a barbeque, gone to "The Chocolate Museum" in Cusco, and played the Peruvian game "Sapo."  This past Wednesday, we went on a great hike starting in Calca, which is a nearby city to Pisac, and were led to Incan ruins that are not well-known.  To get to the ruins, we walked through fields of corn and people's backyards.  There were no tourists at the ruins and the only other people there were some local villagers picking flowers.  It was very cool to be able to see these ruins that I would not have been able to find by myself!