Galloping the Globe

We take a very natural approach to geography around here. If a place comes up in our reading, we look it up and/or write it down or trace the route on our markable map. I love, love, did I say LOVE it when some exotic out of the way place comes up and I can say "Oh, I've been there." or P-guy has. Happens quite alot actually since we both travelled extensively before meeting and then before and during our marriage before kids. Today it was Chile. Learning about the Andes mountains. "Do you want to see them?" I asked P-Girl as I went in search of the album. And came back with these.

Prairie Guy and OM friend from Venezuela (P-Guy's on the right, handsome punk wasn't he? Well, not that he still isn't or anything...).

Here he is on the left this time, with another OM friend from Switzerland. They are so high up they can hardly breathe, I think they are actually leaning on each other for support to keep themselves upright...

Is this cool or is this cool?
Alpacas, up close and personal.
We went on to read about the Atacama Desert in the northern reaches of Chile. So dry in parts that there has never been any recorded rain fall... "oooh, wanna see????" =D

P-guy stayed in a small rural community (gives a whole new meaning to the term rural doesn't it? I'll take my rural wheat fields thank you very much). Here are some pics from his time there.

They might not have my prairie view, but they hang their laundry too.

And here's my pretty boy husband before I + 9 children (5 here/4 above) helped him acquire a more well, we'll call it "weathered" appearance. Which for the record I much prefer to his pretty boy days....he took all these pictures by the way... he's not too shabby with a camera either.
Needless to say, history class was a big hit today with the kids. But then, it always is.