The Basilica

Today we spent all morning reading. We each had to bring about 73 books with us (do i need to keep telling you when i am exaggerating or are you catching on to the way i talk?) so we are trying to read them all as fast as possible so that we can get rid of them. there is a book shelf in the hostel that we are going to leave the books we finish in, and then if we really need them in four months we will come back and get them. we both finished a book today! except mine was only about 120 pages and ali's was like 200-300. So my accomplishment is not as exciting. I get too easily distracted i think?

We decided to take a break from being so cool and reading all the time, and walk to the Basilica which is a HUGE church that we can see from our hostel. You can climb all the way to the top of the highest towers, and when you get to a certain point the stairs get more and more sketchy until you are literally just climbing a ladder. It was beautiful and we could see the whole city. After we explored everywhere that we could and Ali had successfully climbed down a really scary ladder on the side of one of the roofs, we left. There was a big church group there on a mission trip and Ali really wanted to just hop on their bus and go with them. At first I thought she was joking, but then I remembered this is Ali I was dealing with. She was totally serious. We thought about it for a second and just walked in the middle of the group as if we were with them but then decided it would probably not end well for us, so we walked home.

Sorry these pictures are overly bright. I wasn't paying attention to the setting on the camera so those of you out there who are picky about photography, I'm going to kindly ask you to get over it.

Ali doing something sketchy...

I really miss you all! Tomorrow I go to the farm so internet will be very hard to get, so I apologize if my posts become few and far between. Know that I love you and am thinking about you.