This has been another week filled with life. Because we have seen most of the "usual" ruins and museums, we now have time to enjoy other aspects of Cusco....mostly making new friends and having time to get to know them better. We have some pretty regular routines now...leave the house at 7:30 to walk to yoga every day at 8, back home by 10 to eat our oatmeal (prepared by Ricardo) and then off to school from 11-1. We are enjoying our teachers and hopefully progressing with our Spanish.
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| Susan and the ancient ruins! |
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| Bread in the San Pedro Market |
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| Fountain in Plaza de San Blas |
Our school, Centro Tinku surprised us by having a birthday cake for me on Thursday. It was really nice to be celebrated this way. It was also Thanksgiving and we celebrated that by calling all our family and many friends and talking together on skype. We even had a three way conversation going.
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| Surprise Birthday cake at Centro Tinku |
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| Happy Birthday |
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| Birthday dinner |
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| Impromptu celebration near Mercado de San Pedro |
The birthday celebration continued with each of us having a massage in the afternoon followed by dinner that night.
Another of our routines now is a long Sunday walk with friends. Jean-Jacques has been living here for many years and knows so many interesting trails outside the city. We start in the downtown and within 15 minutes are usually in the outskirts, hiking up high into the mountains for incredible views and many times coming across ancient ruins. We have done this with him for the last 3 Sundays and each time with a few new people so our friends in Cusco are growing.
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| Holding up the ancient wall |
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| She found her niche! |
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| Ruins that we came upon during our Sunday hike |
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Our new friends...Anna, Chantal, Jean-Jacques
Ricardo, me and Tess. (Telma is taking the picture) |
We'll be staying put here for another few weeks before traveling to several other cities in Peru. We are really happy to be settled in this town and getting to know more each day about its culture and people.
A little side tidbit....we were loaned a DVD called "No Direction Home" which is a two disc story about Bob Dylan and the folk music era of the 60's. We are really enjoying it and shall watch the second disc tonight. It was loaned to me by my Spanish teacher who loves Bob Dylan and his poetry as well as the others of that era.
Bye for now and "see" you next week.
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