a trip!!!!!!!

Carnaval has begun. Since January 6th all kids are throwing water balloons at everyone. This will continue about a month and a half until the weekend it culminates, when they'll throw paint and old oil on people. We stay in the house that weekend like it's the great tribulation.

So anyway we're thinking of getting away for about a week this year to avoid it. And it would double as an anniversary trip! I think we've prettymuch settled on Chachapoyas, a city in the JUNGLE! It's been a Spanish city since 1538, and it's the capital of the Amazon region. The Chachapoyas people flourished before the Incas subjugated them, and they had light skin and hair, which is a mystery---maybe caucasions were able to migrate a lot earlier than thought. Anyway from there we can go to the 5th highest waterfalls in the world, and another day we can see ruins of a city that have been compared to Macchu Pichu without the tourist trampling. Yay!