May 13th

This week has been pretty chill! It's crazy to think we only have a week left here...the past few days we've walked around Cuzco a bit more and just explored different areas and such. Today, for instance, we wanted to go to Moray (which are some really cool ruins) but we didn't have enough time so we just went to El Molino, which is the black market, instead. There's Molino 1 and Molino 2...we only went to the first one, but it was HUGE! Definitely a little overwhelming. But it was cool to walk around and see.

Important update: We are officially switching projects! The kids at Ayarmaca are SO cute and so much fun, and we really enjoyed being there, but we weren't really needed. We mostly just colored with them and played and whatevs. Which was all fun and whatnot, but we didn't come here to play. We may have helped out a little bit, but there wasn't really much we could do there. So we talked to our project advisors, and they said we could switch to a different project instead where we could be of more help, and we happily agreed! (I don't know why they didn't do this in the first place.) So Monday we will be heading to a clinic for disabled children (both mentally and physically) where we will be cleaning, feeding, changing, bathing, playing with, and just generally taking care of these kids. We have a couple other volunteer friends who are at the same place and they said it's pretty challenging, a lot of work, and a little heart-breaking, but you are definitely making a difference and it's so worth it. Which is what we're looking for! It will be pretty hard and sad to leave those adorable kids at Ayarmaca, I've definitely gotten attached to a few of them (especially little Yampol and Pamela!). We'll go say goodbye to them Monday morning before heading to our new project. But as sad as it will be to say goodbye to them, we're really looking forward to our next assignment and helping out! We're really excited!

In other news...we're starting our journey to Machu Picchu tomorrow morning!!! We'll be spending tomorrow night in Aguas Calientes and then going up to MP extremely EARLY the next morning. And by early I mean like 2 am. Oh yeah. Livin the dream. Can't wait!! :)