Jubilee Loses Her Shoe

Throughout our tour of the Kuelap ruins our guide spoke only in Spanish (even though we were promised a little explanation in English). Basically, we were on our own and took our own little mini tours throughout the ruins. We came up with much more interesting stories. Even though we made up our own stories the ones we are about to tell you are 100% true (see images that document the events)

We came to the highest part of the city ruins that overlooked the entire valley and beyond. While our guide was yakking, William made a wisecrack that this was the spot where the Incan king made his sacrifices for the entire tribe to witness. About two minutes later we found out this was in fact a true statement from one of the fellow tour people who spoke very little English. He then went on to tell us that the Incan King would make a sacrifice and the blood would drain through a small square hole at our feet towards the crowd below. This was to show them more proof of the sacrifice being made. Jubilee wanted a realistic re-enactment of this event and since William was the only one who could understand her he was the prop.

At another point in our tour we came up to the tribal housing. Once again the guide was yakking away in Spanish so we continued to entertain ourselves with our own stories. This time we did not even come close. It turns out that the large holes we found in every house were actually the place where the female would be put after she died. Now William wanted to re-enact this one and Jubilee was the prop. However, Jubilee refused to go down the 6ft. hole. So William said one leg would be fine. And Jubilee compromised with putting one leg over the hole.

After William got this shot there was a small complication. Jubilee lost her shoe down the grave hole.




Now because we were on our own mini tour we had to go find our guide and a creative way to explain how the shoe ended up in the grave hole. As we tried to explain what happened, our guide just jumped right in and rescued the shoe.








Jubilee got her shoe back and was excited that she did not have to trek back down the mountain with one shoe!