sick and wrong!
We got a parrot! For 2 dollars! A green Amazon parrot on a string. The poor thing! I think it is so cruel.  On the other hand, leaving it with the demented woman who was selling it wouldn't have been entirely humanitarian either. So we have a parrot! It has a piece of ribbon around its leg, so when it jumps off of Dex's shoulder, he thinks he's free for a brief second. Then its little flight comes to a jerky end as the string runs out, and it gets a bit of bungee jump action. sick sick sick. We know nothing about birds! Hope it lives.
It suits Dex though. The bird is a total chick magnet. Girls come up and kiss it, even though it is kind of ugly and gross. We gets tons of attention. A bit of a circus we are! Dex walks around with the branch in his mouth, and the bird perched on the end of the branch. We turn heads. and David plays music.
Yes, that is right, David is with us! Due to my navigational mishap, which led us astray to Cajamarca....he caught up with us.  I led us astray, but as a result we have a parrot and a David.
David is funny. He fucks with the beggar kids and plays whiney songs on his guitar ("amoooooooorrrrrrrrr, loco amooooooooorrrrrrrrrr") We hung out in the meat section of the market and put on a spontaneous little show for the beggar kids, as the butcher whacked apart a goat with an ax. We also got to see a chicken ripped open with the half formed, yellow eggs inside. ewwwwwwwwwww. Not sorry to be vegetarian!
Now we are going to get on a bus for 24 hours (after sleeping on the bus station floor last night). nice nice nice. But then we will emerge, at long last, in the Amazon, our elusive destination! hee hee!

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