one more day

i can´t believe that it´s finally here.. i can´t say that i´m happy for the last day because so far i´ve cried most of the time. last night saw the first tear, i had to say goodbye to Anke, Lilo, Robyn and Sally. we´re definitely going to see each other again, but it will be a while which is the sad part. they all came into pisac to eat for my birthday and to hang out one last time.

this morning was the hardest. we ate panetón for breakfast, basically cake in a box with fruit chunks in it...livia started crying when she was telling us about how lucky we were to have great parents and then went into how she would miss us. pati gave us a sweet note and that´s when i lost it.. everyone was balling. we got our suitcases ready because the cab was going to come pick us up around 9. when he got there everyone was out of breath from crying so hard and no one wanted to leave. we passed the teachers on the way out too and got to say one more goodbye.

realizing that i would never get to see the sacred valley and the town of pisac made it hard to not cry on the way to cusco. i´ve really never seen any place so exquisite in my whole life. i keep praying that the image of the mountains overlooking pisac and the ruins above the city would be burned in my memory forever.. i will miss it so much when i´m gone.

libby and i have spent the afternoon getting last minute things in cusco. i honestly don´t know how we´re going to get everything home and if we do actually fit it all in the suitcases i´m still going to be nervous that it´s too heavy or that we´re not allowed to have some of the stuff in there. it should be interesting.

our flight tomorrow leaves around 2:30 from cusco to lima and then we wait till 11:45 p.m for our flight to miami. we´ll be in atlanta around 12 noon on friday. it´s never as simple as just jumping on a plane and poof you´re home....