Cajalympics

Cajalympics is an annual, time-honored tradition among the volunteers in Cajamarca. Every year teams are formed, alliances made, and countries selected in preparation for the main event. A date is chosen, and volunteers converge from north and south alike to compete for glory in our own version of olympic games - although the games played at Cajalympics are not exactly olympic sports in the traditional sense :)

As with the real Olympics, however, the manner in which a team presents itself is of utmost importance. Thus the first (and only photographable) event of Cajalympics is the costume contest - each team must come dressed in the style of their chosen country. Brad and I spent the weeks leading up to this weekend in an ongoing quest to improve our Scotland outfits, and our efforts won us second place in the costume contest. Not a bad start to what turned out to be an extremely fun and silly day of Cajalympics antics.

Brad and I looking Scottish

Katy and José as Japan - costume competition winners

Chris and Nick as Terrorists - they felt it politically incorrect to assign that label to any certain country

Manuel and Amanda as Oceania (obviously, Cajalympics has very loose rules for the definition of "country")

Diamond and Jackie as Greece

Jess and Faith as Jamaica

Kate and Jennifer as Sweden (the Swedish chef muppet and Lisbeth Salander)

And Zach forming third-party alliances as an obscure and unpronounceable region of Latvia