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Jealous
Sounds like you are having a great time, the pictures are beautiful.

coffee/beer...yummy
I have never heard of coffee/beer before, must be a local Peruvian drink, does it taste like coffee or beer or some weird combination of both? Love the pics, love the blogs, keep em coming. One other thing, is there some kind of contest for the driest place in the world because the Chileans believe that the Atacama desert is the driest place in the world since they get only 30 mm of rain a year, that has to be a lot less than 30 minutes of rain, or maybe they didn{t get the deluge of 1997, so they now believe they are the driest in the world. All I know is that after spending 7 days in desert like conditions, I look like the mummies that you saw! By the way Heather, good thing you teach Math because your spelling sucks!

Huh?
Cajal, moors in the UK... for a minute there I was going to ask you to put the big girl back on cause I couldn't understand... but then came "The plants were pretty with bright colors..." and I decided to hang in there!

Curious
Keep the long stories coming.. I love it. I am learning SO much that between you and Google Earth I will never NEED to go to these places you are in and can spend all my money on candian beer MMM. In addition learning some useful neurological ditties. As a side note for those NON-Neurologists reading this.. Santiago Ramon y Cajal was a Spanish histologist noted for his work on the structure of the nervous system. How'd I do Shelagh? Have fun in Lima, I don't know much about it but read another blog about the catacombs of the Convento de San Francisco which sound neat.

Another adventure
Perhaps those children have their own island and someone has an experiment going to see what will happen to them without adult supervision. Maybe a solution for all our issues and cheaters, simply abandon them on their own island! Hope the rest of your trip goes as well as it has started.

Air Canada could take Lessons
That sounds great, Air Canada could take lessons from the Albatross, maybe they could get their flights out on time.

CBE risk assessment forms
I won't even take my students to the Museum of the Regiment for fear they stumble down the steps and some damn parent claim the child suffered mental anguish due to the trauma. Maybe I'll offer up a trip to Israel for the Religous studies course eh! Glad you two are having fun!

copulation
Ok, so you got pics of the tortoises mating, they sound somewhat discreet compared to the elephants (mostly male) in Zimbabwe preparing for mating! I couldn't keep my eyes off them, but my husband (who is not in any way a prude) wouldn't let me take pictures!!!!! The islands sound fantastic, now I need to go back to Ecuador just to see the Galapagos. Maybe I will drag Ken for some mating fun! Alas poor George, he may not be gay, just old! After all in tortoise years, that has to be at least a 100!

I am so jealous!
I love the stories - keep them coming! I am trying to live every moment through you guys. You ROCK!

Answers to your questions
I think that all of these things have to do with the $1 beer. Clearly you are weaker after all those beers especially in the equitorial heat...the egg only looks like it is balancing on the nial because you are lauing down with your face on the pavement looking at it laying beside you...and you weigh less because the amount is in kilos not in pounds. Either that or you are reading it backwards. Glad to hear you are having fun. I love the photos.

Weightless
Don't think that by being at the equator you've lost a few pounds, it's not that significant. If you want a proper answer, it's the fact that you're further away from the earth's axis and and have a larger outward acceleration (-ve g's) I now want a postcard and more info on the beer!

Driving
Well it sounds like your having a great time, Sata International actually served edible food for an airline. Drving there sounds much more exciting. The roads here are very narrow and some are one way and some are not. The convertible has generated lots of inerest wherever we go. But then I enjoy being the center of attention.