ChiKat

We are officially going to Bolivia and Peru! We'll see Machu Picchu and hike to elevations of 16,000 feet. I am pretty excited, and so is my husband. We agonized about this decision. Giving the yellow fever vaccine to our son worries us, dragging him to 16,000 feet when he is barely a year old worries us…and taking him on a 8+ hour flight TERRIFIES us. But our love of travel, and our determination not to become hermits just because we have a baby, has won out.

We are now the proud owners of a baby backpack, a stroller that coverts to a car seat for the airplane, and a passport for our son.

The entire time I was getting passport photos taken of our son, the photographer kept saying, "I have NEVER had to take pictures of a BABY for a PASSPORT…who takes a BABY out of the COUNTRY? I've just NEVER had to do this before." I was both totally exasperated (because TONS of people take their children on trips) and totally embarrassed because he IS a baby and we are the terrible parents dragging him away from his safe home.

But even the CVS photographer couldn't keep us from checking out Incan ruins.

We don't leave for another two months, but I'm already trying to figure out how we haul all of his stuff onto a plane. I am so excited about this trip!