Here is the Astronaut at the Nazca Lines, and possibly my next tattoo, which I am thinking about putting somewhere on my scalp....always scheming....
Two crazy girls jamming out in a tiny aircraft. Oh my how we rock it.
The Nazca take on the Tree of Life. I also really like this....hmmm.
This is the oasis of Huacachina, there was some serious paddleboating taking place in this little watering hole. It was quite awesome.
The end of an awesome day. 
So here is the sand angel that I made, VA's is right next to it. We had a whirl wind bus tour of the Southern Coast of Peru, including Nazca, Ica, Huacachina, and then Arequipa. However there was a huge protest going on because of a lot of terrible things happening to people living in the jungle right now because of bad policies and practices of the President of Peru, Alan Garcia, so we were on the bus a lot trying to get back to Cusco and it rendered my three travel companions and myself very sick. We have been coughing for quite a while now and even though it's a hilarious broken record at night, we are all ready to be on the mend. So, back to the pics...This sand angel was left in Huacachina, were we went paddleboating, dunebuggying, and sandboarding. It was such an amazing and fantastic day. Almost worth the flu.
The missing party of our caravan took this pic, but she only managed to capture VA airborne. Drats. From Left to Right: VA, me, Meagan (my good friend from ASU who came down)
This is in the Arequipa Plaza de Armas, and this is VA and Shannon (my friend from Cusco) rocking out with the pigeons. We suspect they could be the culprits of our sickness. However we TOTALLY cleaned up and de-pigeoned right after we finished feeding...
CHECK OUT THE MOHAWK! I went all the way this time...
Christmas greeting card 2009.VA and I have had an interesting time together in Cusco. We started off traveling and where stopping in a different town each day, traveling by bus at night to the next stop. We got caught in Arequipa because of protests going on blocking Sucwani and Juliaca (I think I spelled those cities correctly) so we had to back to Nazca and then to Cusco, so there was a period where we were on a bus for 27 hours. It was terrible. After that we all developed a nasty cough and lost all our energy. There were four girls in one apartment completely incapacitated and bedridden. However it was pretty funny to hear the rounds of coughs we would have in the middle of the night. It was like the yawn effect. Once one started you could hear coughs for the next ten or so minutes. Eventually everyone regained enough energy to be able to take short outings around Cusco and fit in some tourist shit. VA and I went to Machupicchu on Tuesday and then these Hot Springs in Santa Teresa, they were very nice and warm after a cold day on the mountain, it was so nice. Machupicchu was beautiful but VERY cold, it was drizzly and foggy, which complements the stone of the ruins so well, it was exquisite. We then walked along the train tracks, hitched a cab ride in the middle of nowhere, and spent a very long time relaxing in these hot springs pools. It was a wonderful and much needed end to the day.
