Postponed Peru Blog

I know I'm very behind, but here are a couple pictures to whet your appetite for our Peru Adventure! This is from our 1st day, spent in Bogota, Columbia.

Sorry they're not all prettied and adjusted...just for you to enjoy in their raw form!

We started out the trip with a long layover in Bogota, Columbia. We decided to go out and explore for a few hours, rather than sleep on the dirty airport carpet. Below are the pictures from our ascent up to Cerro de Monserrate. We took a cable car STRAIGHT up the hill...

and hiked up to the church.

The white church built on the mountain summit is at 3,200 meters and dominates the cityscape. Every Sunday Pilgrims (and tourists like us) take the cable cars straight up the side of the mountain to pay their respects to Senor Caido, the Fallen Christ, inside the church.

The best views in Bogota are seen from the peak, as well as a dirty little market behind the church.

Yes, that is 4 different types of blood sausage...hungry?

Also atop the mountain is a gorgeous restaurate. Unfortunately they weren't open at 6 a.m.!

Street vendors lined the roads up to the church. This was the most intersting one...in her little cook house she made these delicious corn pancakes with cheese in the middle. Yummy!

We then dashed back to the airport to catch our next 2 flights that took us into the heart of Peru. Coming soon...inside Peru!

Be my friend on GoodReads!

So you all know by now how bad I am at this blogging thing...I promise Peru pictures will come up eventually. But you can be my friend on GoodReads! I'm much more of a reader than a blogger and I update there every week or 2!

I would love to see what all of your are reading, too! Check out my latest book review...
There we go - now I feel more like a blogger :-)



The Ordinary Princess by M.M. Kaye

My review

rating: 4 of 5 stars
For some reason it popped into my dreams a few weeks ago that this is the fairy tale my grandmother use to read to me when I was little and where my nick-name came from. It was wonderful to re-read - I couldn't put it down. And it made me think of grandma - which is probably why it got so many stars from me.



A really sweet story with a strong female character. Best part is that it's not too long and detailed that parents would get tired of reading it to their kids. I've already bought a copy for my un-conceived daughter :-).






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3 Year Anniversary!

By the time I'm finally posting this, we've been married 3 1/2 years...but who's counting? We spent our 3 year anniversary at Marine World in the Bay Area. You can see Shamoo (or whatever this one is named) in the background doing a trick for us!

Familiar Faces!

It was wonderful to see Brandi come into California out of the snow this summer! Yes - they came in June and it snowed a few days before they left Utah! I loved having Brandi and her hubbie Clayton here this summer...and even more excited that they're moving back full time in the spring once Clayton finishes school!

Here we are at the Golden Gate Park. They're so lucky to have lived in the heart of the financial district all summer!

Spanish Party

So I'm trying to catch up on a bit of blogging - 6 months or so worth, to be exact.

A few months ago we had a Spanish party with our friends Ashley, Jason and Charity. We had amazingly authentic dishes - and they should know - Jason, Ben and Charity all served missions in Spain. Sorry that it's taken me 3 months to post these Jason!