Just back from our "Meet and Greet" but we just have to tell you about our awesome day......
Wow!......... It started out as an ordinary city tour on any ordinary Sunday. We followed our tall, handsome tour guide through the city streets along with all his new recruits up to the Plaza de Armas. We heard loud music, we saw colourfully-dressed people and the cameras started clicking.
All Zac's finely-laid plans went out the window. The Plaza was PACKED!!!!!!!! His tour members started disappearing to take photos, though still following reluctantly. It didn't take long for his mother to say, "Sorry son, I've had a better offer."
The music and colour was so enticing that we just had to go. We were so excited and felt so brave that Judy & Lindy, armed with freshly-charged cameras, left the group and disappeared into the crowd. What an amazing feeling, wandering through a narrow street full of exotically-dressed Peruvians - and us just in there......on our own.......smiling like idiots.......clicking away madly......and giggling wildly!!!!!! We were like kids in a candy shop. Such amazing sights - and everyone so h
appy and willing to let us take their photos - to jump in beside them and to be in photos with them - to give us their accessories and to join their mood..... and all this before any music had started to play. (These people were lined up and patiently waiting their turn to enter the Plaza)We finally tore ourselves away and walked back to the Plaza to discover other demonstrations - numerous Scout groups, chanting, clapping. That was when we discovered that other groups had started to enter. We really had no idea what was going on - and still don't - but we were there, in the middle of it all, on our own, and HELL, we were a part of it!
We hope that you can appreciate what fun we were having....how safe we felt..........how friendly they all were.............the emotion of the sights and sounds.......we just got swept up in the moment.......with tears in our eyes and silly grins on our faces........and didn't return to the hotel until the memory card was full. (Sunburnt, but happy) Some people may have been wrongly informed that the day was turning cool - don't you hate a smart-arse?
Don't forget to click onto Flicka for MORE photos!!!!!
We've had the tastes of Peru and the sights of Peru, all in two days..... Give us Machu Picchu and we'll be satisfied.
.......Created by two satisfied females and two litres of red wine
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