Carnaval in Cuzco!

I haven´t had a chance to post in awhile...our access to internet has been slim! Since our last post, we celebrated Carnaval in the Sacred Valley. It was a lot of fun, and I´ll post more pictures as soon as we get internet back. We went into different towns, and watched dancing and listened to traditional music. I was expecting to get wet, because I was told to bring extra clothes. I didn´t know if I would actually get involved, but I had no choice! We bought cans of this spray snow, which is like colored shaving cream that can shoot far like silly string. As we drove by in our car, we sprayed random people with it! After we parked, we walked around and sprayed people too. Little did I know that women are the main target of this! The locals have buckets of water prepared, and the kids hang out at the water fountains ready to get you wet! I got drenched! Good times! After stopping at a few towns in the Sacred Valley, we had a late lunch in Urubamba, and did some dancing. We tried the strawberry chica drink, and danced around a tree decorated with various cooking utensils. We danced around the tree hand-in-hand taking turns with the axe to try and cut it down! After it got cut down, people scramble around to get the cooking utensils off the tree, like a piñata! Fun traditions for Carnaval! I think we should do this in Wisconsin!