A couple of things - the "Grazia" post

So, as we were standing in one of the queues to get into MP, a rumour started that Cameron Diaz was there. I'll be honest, I thought it was probably a wind up. But, as we waited for the sun to rise, more and more people were talking about it, some claiming 1st hand sightings.

Anyway, after sunrise we let the mobs move into the ruins proper and then ambled down ourselves. We stopped at a corner of a walkway and looked down on the ruins for a bit.

Then, coming down the path towards us was a bloke with a big furry microphone (o.k. the microphone isn't big and furry, the windshield is - but the effect is the same). I nudged T and we sat in awe and wonderment as the mighty one herself passed by - within inches. With about 5 people in the official camera crew, about 5 more paps (with impressively large camera lenses) and then hordes of people.

Natch, we got our own pics.

Papped!

We then spent the best part of the next hour watching the site from the same position, seeing the ripples of people scrumming around to get a glimpse of the mighty one and taking their own pics.

At one point one of the film crew appears to get grumpy and shouted "Look! people - ruins". It would have had more effect if he himself hadn't been more interested in CD than MP. Plonker.

The scrums

Later on, we spotted the paps with their laptops out, presumably sending their ill gotten gains back to their agencies.

Contented Paps

Later still, we passed the same group of paps, who had asked some joe-public to take a picture of them as a group - I wish I'd got a picture of that.

In unrelated (yeah, right) news, there is an internet vote going on at the moment to choose the new 7 wonders of the world. Some group (or a bloke) has set himself up as a company and is running an online poll to select 7 (from a shortlist of 21) wonders. All marketing hype if you ask me.

MP - as one of the 21, is pushing hard - you can't move in Aguas Calientes for posters about it.

You can even vote online at the site itself.

Rigging a vote

The 21 competitors are:

• The Acropolis Greece
  
• Hagia Sophia Turkey
  
• The Kremlin/St. Basil's Russia
  
• The Colosseum Italy
  
• Neuschwanstein Castle Germany
  
• The Eiffel Tower France
  
• Stonehenge United Kingdom
  
• The Alhambra Spain
  
• The Great Wall of China China
  
• Kiyomizu Temple Japan
  
• The Sydney Opera House Austrailia
  
• Angkor Cambodia
  
• The Taj Mahal India
  
• Timbuktu Mali
  
• Petra Jordan
  
• The Pyramids of Giza Egypt
  
• The Statue of Christ Redeemer Brazil
  
• The Easter Island Statues Chile
  
• Machu Picchu Peru
  
• Chichen Itza Mexico
  
• The Statue of Liberty U.S.A
  

I have been to 10 of the 21. Sorry MP - you aren't one of my top 7. It's only 14th century, you know.

Not just _any_ center (sic)

If you want (and the site isn't down for "scheduled maintenance") you can vote. I don't think I'll bother though.