What do you get when you translate "eat" and "May" to Spanish and put them together?

Put this together and what do you got?

You got Cumbe Mayo!

Come means eat, and mayo means May. Change come and put them together, Cumbe Mayo!

Besides Cumbe Mayo, there was another thing I did today...

This is the day I flew.

Also, we passed this Catholic cathedral that's on the main plaza in Cajamarca. We thought these things were made of flower petals, but they were made of painted sawdust. We couldn't look closely at the dove one, because it was behind some gates. But we think it's sawdust.
Firefighter
Dove

We went with a tour guide this time. Guess what? Our tour guide was our Stake President, who was also in our Ward! (A Stake President is something that Mormon churches have, they like lead a group of groups pretty much.)

On the way up the hill, there was a beautiful view. And this proves Renen's point that there are dogs all over.

They even had us stop to look at the view.  So we took a picture. At least Mom uploaded the one with text so I don't have to type it in the following space:____________________________ (look at Lily)

I like this picture kind of better because it shows me, (my necklace,) the hill, and the mountains. I decided to put it in here too.

In the view there was this circle of road. I thought it was interesting. In the picture above, (with the whole family) you can see that it is in the bottom-right corner.

Below you can see the flat land, and then--weird--a hill coming out of nowhere. In the picture with all the view and the family, you can see the hill is at the bottom-left.

This is a tilted picture, sorry if it makes your tummy go whoooooo??:{}{:{:|{>{!?!?!? (yes I am trying to make your stomach go crazy)  but anyway, this is a street that our combis and buses go on all the time. I think it is ridiculously straight. Beside it is a dome building.  It is only half built, and then they ran out of money. I think its kind of funny that there is this big stadium and no one uses it!

 

Below you see the stairs that we have to go down to reach the Cumbe Mayo rocks, and I wanted to take a picture of them. There were a lot.

In Cumbe Mayo, there was a vertical tunnel-ish thing. I wanted to take a picture of it, because it was long, tall, rough, rocky, and pretty much interesting.  

 "The Hicken Nose"

My mom titled this picture the "Hicken Nose". She took this picture because the rock looked like a long, gigantic nose, and Dad's nose (like all the Hickens' noses) was a long, gigantic nose. Not even close to the size of the Rock Formation Person Thingy's nose, though. 

There was this cave, you know, thingy thing... and Mom took a picture of us... you know...

Now out of my shy stage. De do da de de da. I'm ready.

There was this awesome but very narrow extremely narrow cave. In one point it was dark extremely dark. Lily got scared extremely scared, so Renen turned on a helpful extremely helpful flashlight. 

I had lots of this following picture style that all looked the same.

Well, here is this picture. This is what most of the Cumbemayo rocks looked like, but being there in person made it a lot cooler, so COME, PEOPLE WHO WON'T LET THEIR TEENAGE KIDS COME! (the person I'm talking about will know it)

Here is another one, maybe cooler, because it has a mini forest still trying to grow.

Do you know what llamas eat? If you have read Secret of the Andes, that book that I suggested in an earlier post, then you will know. It's called ychu (eat-you) grass! Below is me with the ychu grass. We didn't know it was ychu until our tour guide told us! It looks like this section of ground didn't brush his hair! Do you know what the llamas say to this grass? I'll ychu!! Ha ha ha! 

Lily wanted a picture of her flying too, so now you know what I was doing. Balancing on a very hard to balance on rock that was very rough, while putting my arms out and facing away from the camera. Houdini is figured out. 

But I do think it is interesting how the rocks all go into this valley, right? 

Our tour group went along this path, and by now we are behind. We walk as fast as we can while taking in the view and while posing for pictures.

Scientist at work! Time for me to tell you about the game Lily and I were playing. We were scientists, and we had to find out clues in each Saturday adventure to find the treasure before the bad guy can! There are Native Peruvian petroglyphs on this rock, and the most common petroglyphic is a spiral. It means eternal life, or that's what my tour guide tells me.

Two oceans... have you ever seen that movie? I don't even know if it exists. But maybe it does. On our way up, we passed the Continental Divide. I am standing by a stream that is going to the Pacific Ocean, but the water by Dad and Lily is going to the Atlantic. And only 10 feet apart!  The ancient, pre-Incan people who lived here built this aqueduct to bring water into the Cajamarca valley, which is on the other side of the Continental Divide, so from there it goes to the Amazon River and the Atlantic Ocean.

On the top of this bridge, there is the aqueduct that goes to the Atlantic. I think the bridge looks pretty French, correct?

It is interesting that there is this rock bridge over this aqueduct. 

In Peru, people call white people "gringos". Everyone loves them, so all the crazy teenage girls that were in our tour group went CRAZY to have a picture with Dad, and me, and Lily, and Mom, and Renen, and Kai. Do you see what I mean about teenagers being crazy? (With some exceptions, not including my brothers.)

The brave explorer, daring to enter the cave, WILL SHE DO IT? YES SHE WILL! But first she has to twist her ankle. 

This cave is dark.

The rock that is on the bottom had more petroglyphs on it, so they said we couldn't step on it while we were trying to get a picture inside the cave.

Oh, you didn't notice the lake before? No, first I just inserted an upside-down picture, and put a rightside-up picture on top of it. 

See, I did enter the cave. Can you find Lily? Dad took the picture. But look at that rock over Kai's head. It looks like it's about to fall. It didn't, gratefully. 

More petroglyphs. I thought I'd put this in there so you could observe the letters more carefully.

Look at this picture! Our tour guide said that it was a lion and a panther fighting or something, two big cats fighting, but I don't get the picture.

We were trying to see who was taller: Renen, or Mom, with the background of part of Cumbe Mayo. When Mom looked at this picture, she said "Uh!" 

I said "What?" 

"Renen's taller than me!"

Afterwards, we went to this one fancy mall in Cajamarca with a shop called El, which means Him. It is the only store that sells men's suits already made! Also, it can fit you if you want. Lily made friends with this mannequin. I guess she asked Kai to take pictures of her with him.

"Are you taking the picture yet?"

"Oh, we're stylish, baby."

Oh, well that's my trip to Cumbe Mayo, and hope you make friends with a mannequin soon!