regresamos a la Casa

¡Amigos! ¡Familia! ¡Hombres! ¡Mujeres! ¡Y niños que tienen todos los años! We have just arrived back to the Casa ACU at 5 a.m. this mañana! We have a countless number of pictures and videos we took while on our travel break to peru. Between the both of us I think we have something like 2000 photos and and an hour of video. We paraglided over the Sacred Valley in the Andes Mountains, hiked up Waynapichu in Machu Picchu...TWICE! (stay tuned for the full story a little later this week), and successfully navigated around Peru, serving as our own travel agents. We met people from Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, and Israel (to name a few), and stayed in a total of five different hostels.

We even met a young lad from the good ol' state of Texas who just might be a future Wildcat. We'll just go ahead and give you the story. So the Hadas del Aire (our team name, if you will remember) were chillin' in the Plaza de Armas in Cusco one night. We were about to retire for the eve because we needed to wake up at 4:30 the next morning for our train ride to Aguas Calientes (the town below Machu Picchu). Then, lo and behold! Kara's purple and white radar started beeping at an incredible fast pace. There right in front of us stood a blond young lad wearing black basketball shorts and a purple ACU Wildcats T-shirt. Kara whispered to Jessalyn and Stef with astounding excitement, "Dude! That guy's wearing an ACU shirt!" To which they responded, "nooOOoooOOOoo waAAaaaaAaaY!" So...long story short...well, really it's not a long story at all- the guy ends up having a brother that is a Freshman at ACU right now. We talked to him and his dad for a few minutes, told them to say a sweet hello to Texas for us, and carried on with our travels through this small little world. We were so pumped about the encounter that we stood in a little cirlce and began to sing "Oh dear Christian College, we loooove you-our dear Alma Mater today..." Ok, so we didn't actually sing it. But, you can imagine how cool it would have been if we did. ACU is legit.

We've been talking a lot about how little time we have left- 6 weeks, we calculated. This has FLOWN by and we're sure it will only get faster from here on out. AHHHHHhhhhhhhHHHHHHhhhhh. Crazy.

Anyway, this blog post is mainly to tell you to brace yourselves for some rockin' pictures and videos that we both will be working on so that you can pretend you were an Hada del Aire too.

So...we are excited to be home, but LOVED Peru.

More to come. VERY soon.

Con amor,

Los Dos
(the both of us)