Chan Chan with the Talbots.

Today a visit to yet another awesome archaeological site here in the Trujillo area(we haven't even scratched the surface...no pun intended....seriously). Chan Chan is the largest Pre-Colombian city in South America and the largest ancient adobe city in the world! Well--just read about it  HERE!  All of the guides were already out on tours, so we just walked around ourselves. It was pretty incredible and we plan on returning to learn more on a guided tour.

We took some of our friends and their 5 children with us! It was for sure an adventure! They are CA-UTE kids- 4 boys and 1 girl(she being the oldest). They are all toe head blonde, and are routienly mauled by the locals here, asking to take pictures with them, feeling their hair, KISSING the baby. So our tour took even longer because almost every tour group that passed us had to stop for pictures with the whities! It was SO funny! I just kept thinking- If someone showed up in Montana from Peru, or India or something like that, we wouldn't be stopping them on the street like they were a side show! It was NUTS! I've included some pictures of that too! 

It was a fun day! We can't wait to share it with the friends and family that might come to visit! Check it out!

The above creepy thing was down in black cave of the below picture. It was WEIRDDDDD! The kids loved it!

 These are the 4 oldest kids pretending to be figures- Dawson-in the green shirt- later jumped off of this ledge. WILD MAN!

There is a spring in the middle of the site. It was actually pretty amazing. You're walking through all of this sand and adobe and then this little desert oasis pops up out of no where.

 Here are some pics of the babies being mauled. poor Myles!

 There were 2 sets of these cool figures. We told the kids that they are called "The spankers"(pronounced"Esponkars")-and that if you climb on the walls they will come to life and paddle your bum.

 The Talbots-and the spankers.

 Kathy and I havin a goood goood time!