This is a temple from the Inca time period.  

While in Callao Peru we went to a Horse Ranch. It was so interesting. We loved every minute. They served us a lunch that was fantastic. 

Dad is riding a Peruvian Paso Horse. They are world famous. They are beautiful horses.  

Dancers in Arica, Chile 

In Coquimbo Chile we saw some of the stone heads from Easter Island.  

This is me in Valparaiso in Chile. This is there resort town. It is beautiful. 

We were so excited to take a tour to the Alps while we were in Chile. This is a picture of the road we climbed to get to the top of the Alps. There are 33 switch backs to make it to the top. There are no guard rails. It is a rather exciting ride. This is the main road to Argentina from Chile. It is very heavily traveled. It is an experience that we will not soon forget. 

This is a glacier lake outside of the lodge that we had lunch. The mountain peck behind the lake is in Argentina.  

Kim getting water for LaDawn and Brent from the glacier lake. It was striaght down a small cliff to get to the water. I gave up half way down. I took this picture thinking it may be the last one of Kim. He may stuck down there for ever. He did make it back up, on a road that we couldn't see from where we were. He ended up climbing up easily.  

This is the highest peck in the Americas. The building to the right is a ski lodge. 

I can't remember what the highest peak is called in the Andes, but this is it with the ski lodge in the foreground. 

Our last day in Santiago we decided to go on a hike to see more of the city. We took a gondala up the to the top of this high hill. I can't call it a mountain with the Andes right there by it, but most places on this earth it would be called a mountain. You can look out over all the Santiago from several places on the hill. There were gardens through out the hike down. It was beautiful. We saw so many interesting things. I am including only a few pictures.  

We hiked down through the gardens. It was very pretty. 

This is called a Monkey tree. It was very interesting. 

Everywhere we turned there was a beautiful garden. We had a wonderful day before flying home that night. This was a great way to end our stay in Chile 

Snow
We had snow this last week. Candice had a terrible time in it, but Mickayla and Will had a great time. They were both sad when the snow melted.

Reed and Blake took Mickayla sledding down the Gasser's street. Reed went face first and ended up kissing the pavement with his chin. Dad braved the ice covered roads to get Reed down to the Urgent care. Reed had 11 stitches on his handsome face.

 

We recieved this picture of the Pilka family.  

Blake won the award in football as the most improved. He has always hated that award, but I think he was really proud of this one. The couches mention several times over the night's activities about how Blake's ablities had made the win possible. He also won the award for the most valuable defensive player. He was also named on the Kingco honor team. He recieved honorable mention for that. Way to go Blake!  

We had a fun time carving pumpkins. The following are a few pictures of our activity.

 

 

 

 

Mickayla was intested in saftey.