New Lens

I took a big step and I invested in a new lens a few weeks ago. It was a scary purchase, but so worth it. Now the photos I envision in my head I can produce with my camera and this lens.

My first chance to use it was for a family get away to Kelowna.


Here are some of my favorite

Cuzco

We stayed in Cuzco 3 days before heading to Machu Picchu for our hike.
I was not impressed with how cold it was there. I guess i was spoiled with the 3 weeks of 30 degree weather in the other countries :)




Best manikin ever!






Strip mall like area.










A car rally that went from Brazil and ended here!!

Colonial, Uruguay

Colonial, Uruguay.
We took a 1 hour buquebus ferry ride from Buenos Aires to this cute town. It was funny though, even though it was only an hour ferry ride, we changed time zones! Colonial is an hour ahead of Buenos Aires.



























The Buquebus website wasn't very user friendly, so i called to get us our tickets. I had to repeat the spelling of our names 3 times each, in Spanish, and they still go it wrong!

The ferry


We had to sit in first class on the way back. They were the only tickets available.

Looking down on the economy class seats.

1st class gets you free champagne, newspaper, & snacks :)

Lima, Peru

Lima, Peru

We lucked out and ended up in Lima for their birthday. First thing in the morning they had a parade. Each group is from a different town in Peru who came to celebrate Lima's birthday with the city.











We ran into Lima's version of Superman:


In the evening, they had different groups from around the country perform music & dances.



The city of Lima











Cool seats downtown

Magical Water Circuit

Interesting food:
McDonalds Chicken Mac


McDonalds delivers!


They have buckets of chicken, just like KFC.
For $9 you get 7 pieces of chicken, 6 chicken nuggets, 3 small fries, and 1 coleslaw


This is Peru's national pop. It is delicious! Its kind of taste like cream soda and bubble gum!


3 pieces of pizza & 3 drinks for $1.50!



Bitu's Dinner in Cuzco. Alpaca steak. I tried a piece, it was pretty tasty.


Sign at one of our hostels.
We thought it was pretty funny.



We bought three 20' X 29' paintings.
We told them the only way we would buy them is if we could find a suitcase to fit them. They insisted they could make something for it and this is what they came up with!
We checked it and it made it to Vancouver without a scratch.




cool lock in Cuzco.




Descending into Miami.
The clouds were so pretty.