Back to business

I am back in Peru again after a short "detour" with a wedding in AK, family time in TX and hours spent clearing out a storage unit. Brought lots of fun, sweet memories with me, but it's good to be back.
I can't believe I slept almost 11 hours even after napping a bit yesterday afternoon and on the bus in the morning too. I guess I was really sleep deprived. Hopefully this means I fully caught up on sleep now.

Had to wait until after lunch to see the kids, so I went to get some money exchanged and bought some things I needed for the household. I have been looking around a bit at furniture and I think I will probably end up getting patio furniture. They will be so much easier to haul upstairs, and I also haven't had much success finding anything comfortable elsewhere. Most of the couches I have tried are very low and very hard. It's like they are stuffed with newspapers. I like a nice comfy feel to a couch. (I K E A, you should move to Peru!) That would just make me a very happy girl.

I went to see the girls first and they were watching a Korean movie in Spanish and I hung out with them for awhile. It was so great to see their little faces again. After not working on my Spanish the 2 weeks I was gone, I did feel a bit rusty. Time to crack open those books again.
After visiting the girls I found out the boys were at the beach so I went down there to surprise them. Loved all the wet, sandy hugs I got!!! I spent a couple of hours there watching them swim in the ocean and catch shrimp and fish among the rocks. They were using pieces of mesh bags as nets and looked like hardcore fishermen. Kodak moment without a camera. The water here is a little cold so it was also fun to watch how they dealt with that. They would swim in the waves until they got too cold, then they would run to the beach and roll around to cover themselves in the top layer of the sand, which is really warm from the sun heating it all day. They would lay there until they stopped shivering and then swim and repeat. Very cute.

Tonight before it got too dark, I ran over to the market to get some gifts for J, who turns 16 tomorrow. I really want to make it a special day for him and I hope they will let me take him out for lunch to his favorite restaurant. I don't want to get my hopes up, because when I asked permission today, they didn't seem too excited about it, so I'll have to have a plan B, just in case.