Mass in Plaza de Armas
In order to receive communion, you raise your hand and push your way to the front, sustaining bumps, bruises and minor injuries. Jackie, Caroline, Annie and Lee were successful but by the time CJ, Claire, and Karen got close, the priest said, "lo siento," as he had no more to offer.
Corpus Christi festival traditional food--every vendor had the same setup
Guinea pigs
Typical platter you receive from the vendors--includes guinea pig, seaweed, sausage with potato and stomach, fish egg things, and some sort of fried corn bread.
Yum!
After the olfactory overload, our American families squeezed into the "Highest 100% Irish Owned Pub on the Planet 11,156 ft" to watch England get squeezed by Uruguay. Chris and Annie struck up conversations with gents from the next tables--a young lad from Senegal, a Frenchman who's been traveling around S. America for 4 months, and a young German. Halfway into the match a dude wearing a tshirt with the Maryland state flag wandered in. Karen and Lee chatted with a 60 year old British woman (who currently calls Malaga home) who just finished the 4 day Inca Trail trek and claims to have had no problems with altitude sickness at all after flying from Madrid to Lima and straight to Lake Titicaca (12,000+ feet). (I say BS!)
The elation when England scored.
Lee -- 2 weeks without a razor
Karen with Corpus Christi sunburn
