Stokes in Peru

Greetings everyone, I begin this blog entry early on Christmas morning from Marianella's parents home, as the household and the neighborhood remain calm and quiet after the traditional Christmas Eve celebration, which I'll comment upon later in the blog. In about 36 hours I'll be headed to the airport to return home to Minnesota with hopes of cleared runways and on-time flights dancing in my head. Before I leave the balmy climate of Peru for three weeks or so, I wanted to update my blog and let you know what we've been up to lately. Cajamarca If you recall the last blog entry (if you could get past the mustache, which many of you could not :-)), we were planning on going to the northern highlands city of Cajamarca over Thanksgiving weekend, but inclement weather prevented us from landing there and instead we had to choose a time within the month so as to not lose our money. So the week before Christmas was when we ventured off to Cajamarca and enjoyed a peaceful week

Greetings again one and all~ How are you doing? I'm finally getting around to updating the blog again-as I've said previous times, once you get in the working week, life isn't much difference wherever you are in the world, I do not imagine. Marianella and I had planned a weekend getaway over Thanksgiving weekend (even though it's not celebrated in Peru, I get Thanksgiving off since I'm working at the American school in Lima) to Cajamarca, a very historic city in the highlands of Peru and we did circle above Cajamarca but we were unable to land because of inclement weather, so we returned to Lima and will try again the weekend before Christmas to visit Cajamarca. So, if I can't tell you about a trip, what news can I share? Well, November was a month where I looked ridiculous-save your jokes about all year round, trust me, as you shall soon see, November was unique (technically, October 31 through the end of November). Halloweeen We'll start on October 31st