Hi Everyone! Greetings from Cusco. We are feeling settled here, thankfully. The transition has been fairly smooth, particularly, we think, because we were here last summer for a month, both in this city and home. So we all knew what to expect of our surroundings. It's a great place.
Here are a few highlights from our first week:
1.) Tim has developed a passion for Monopoly. We ended up buying the game in the “mercado” (market) on Saturday (in Spanish, mind you) and he will often choose to play by himself, against himself, if he can’t find a willing opponent. “I won!” we will hear him yell from the other room.
2.) On Sunday we attended church with our special friends from last year, the Allens. They are missionaries through MTW (“Mission to the World”) and Bill Allen is a doctor who has established a clinic to treat the poor on the outskirts of Cusco. We’ll probably mention this family a lot, as they are amazing. This is a picture of Tim and Ben with their three girls, Noelle, Sarah, and Kate (recently adopted).
3.) The woman who helps take care of our home, Lupe, will be bringing her little boy, Farik, with her every afternoon. He’s adorable and he and Ben have hit it off (both 4, going on 5). This is a picture of them coloring together.
More posts to come later....
