Happy Hour

We have been hangin' out in Cusco since Sunday and started a second round of Spanish classes monday. Debby and Helen have class in the morning and afternoon while Helen and I take only a morning class and then get to goof off in the afternoon.... ice cream in a plaza, getting supplies or sitting in a cafe with wi-fi waiting for Debby and Helen to join us for happy hour. We try to perch ourselves in a cafe overlooking one of many plazas here, complete with fountains and great lighting as it turns dark around 6pm.

We are staying with a host family just outside of the downtown in the urbanization La Florida, and the color of the houses and tile roofs remind me of Florida but nothing else. Our family is great, Father Victor is a lawyer and doesn't speak English but his two sons that live at home, Fernando and Carlos both speak english well. It has been nice to get some local perspective on this city and Peru from this family and they adore the girls. Mom has been away all week in Lima. Leo, the live in housekeeper prepares all of our meals and enjoys the girls as well.

Each day after desayuno we take a cab for 3 soles downtown for class 9-11 and then have some time to walk around town before returning to la casa for almuerzo at 2pm. Then we are back in a cab for the afternoon class/helado from 3-5. Dinner with the family at 7pm after happy hour.

We have hit a few ruins nearby, seen a dance performance and visited a museum in our free time, and we feel rather busy here. Classes end tomorrow after only a week and we are off to the Sacred Valley by bus and train.