¡Hola!

As I find myself on the eve of another international adventure, I thought I'd try dusting off the travel blog and giving it another go.  Kinda forgot about this, to be honest.  But my last two international adventures were both to Canada, and Canada- while awesome!- really only qualifies as international in the most technical of terms.  Also writing this is a serviceable distraction from packing.

It's Tuesday night, and we leave tomorrow morning.  Mom, Emily and I are going to Peru!  Mom found a great deal on a "weekend express getaway" which includes a day at Machu Picchu and two days in Cusco.  Seems crazy to be traveling to South America for the weekend, but apparently Lima is only a four and a half hour plane flight from Miami.  Oh, yes, this trip involves a bumper day on either side in Florida, a location which I'm already on record as stating might as well be a foreign country too.

To prepare, I spent the weekend half-heartedly reviewing Spanish vocabulary.  At the time of my high school graduation, I was muy bien at Spanish, actually.  Other things that were true at the time of my high school graduation: Y2K was a legitimate concern, the Spice Girls were on their Spiceworld tour, our family shared one cell phone (for emergencies only!), and Mark McGwire was a national hero.  So it's been a while.

The studying did not get off to a great start because I couldn't find any of my intended study materials.  I used to have this really sweet flip-card thing with a bunch of common verbs and tenses.  It was in my Spanish notebook from Senior year.  Pretty sure I had a Spanish dictionary too.  Alas, I guess now they are all in that big biblioteca in the sky.  

So I moved on to Plan B, which was taking no less than 37 of the Spanish quizzes on Sporcle.com.  I am not sure how much this helped, but thanks to a very entertaining Spanish-translation-of-the-movie-quote quiz, I can tell you which movie "Yo tengo pezónes Greg...¿Puedes ordeñarme?" comes from.

It probably would have been wiser to spend this time packing.  

Not sure what the wifi situation will be in Peru, so I guess we'll see how frequently, if at all, I'll be able to post down there.  I wonder what the Spanish term for wifi is?  (Also true at the time of my high school graduation- wifi hadn't been invented yet.)

Either way, I'll do my best to take pictures and keep track of our always-entertaining experiences.

And if you're wondering, the movie is Meet the Parents, and the quote translates to "I have nipples Greg...could you milk me?".