After two weekends without working internet in the house - confined to go to internet cafés - we now have internet back and I can waste time checking out gossip, funny pictures of cats, and upload stuff on my (our - although Wes doesn't even read what I write, he "trusts" me) blog. Last weekend was really short. We had to go back to Tiwanaku for lunch sunday because it was the San Pedro festival, some saint's day that is important to the town and our workers. We went there and danced and drank, and it was a dance contest between the different communities that form the greater Tiwanaku and, as far as we understood, Wankollo (our community of workers with whom we danced) won 2nd place! For this day, I did dress up as a cholita again and the whole community applauded me when I entered the patio where they were all eating! I guess they like it when gringas dress as cholitas. They kept on telling me to be careful because someone would try to steal me as I was so lovely... I look about 70 pounds heavier and, well, that hat... it ain't really flattering...
But as a good sport I'll now post a few pictures. Sadly, I also had a video to post but I let it upload all night and it still wasn't uploaded this morning so I'm abandoning this idea for now... I'll also post pictures of us actually working so you don't think all we do is dance and drink. We don't, I swear. Now, lucky for me I did find a picture of me working, but I have yet to find one of Wes working... And given that I work in the lab and he "works" in the field, it is possible that all this time he told me he worked he was really just dancing a drinking...
This is like Where's Waldo (Où est Charlie), I'm dressed in yellow.
I am holding the awesome 2nd place trophy they gave us. Please note it has a beer can as a body...
And here's me working, this is my fascinating world of archaeology. Just like Indiana Jones, isn't it?!
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Have fun!
