¡Hola de Copacabana! It^s a sunny little tourist-ridden town with a beautiful view of the expansive Lake Titicaca. Yesterday, we hiked up one of the town{s larger mountains, with large cement crosses featuring the stations of the cross along the ascent. At the top were several vendors with soda, snacks, holy water, candles, and miniature cars and houses for an upcoming celebration in which there are parades and the prayerful make offerendas with mini objects with the hope (or faith) that they will obtain them in the following year. Interesting. Even more interesting was the incredible covering of grafiti over this religious site, especially Promo 2007 or 2008. We learned by unfortunate experience on a couple of very noisy hostel nights, that Promo is graduation, which is happening right about now, encouraging drunken celebration and travel among teenage Peruvians everywhere. I{m assuming by the grafiti and bottle caps that it{s similar in Bolivia, as well. Sam has spent probably the majority of our time here in Copacabana attempting to fix some serious stove problems. His patience is amaxing, but as of yet, no solution has been found. Being the amazing and determined go-getting trekkers that we are, nothing can get us down, no non-functioning stove can stop us, and we are headed to Isla del Sol for an overnight and some lovely island hiking. We{re leaving now- I mean now- so, you{ll probably next here from us in a few days from the great Bolivian city of La Paz or the beautiful mountain village of Sorata. Either way, until then.... Love, Nat and Sam