Day 4

Hello everyone!!                                                        Ollantaytambo june 25.

Today we started out the moring with banana pancakes and then headed over to weave baskets. The room was all open with only benches to sit on and work. There were three people that would help you build the baskets and we all made our own. We took selfies with Gdaddy (Eubanks). It was great. After a three hour session of building baskets we headed back to the lodge to play hacky sack and hang out. Finally we went to a restaurant in the plaza, which is really close to our hotel and all got to pick our own sandwiches out. We also got to try purple corn juice, which was interesting. After lunch, we are headed off to the homestays. We have an hour bus ride and then will get to our homestays to go to bed. We are all thinking about the parents! We miss you all!

Audrey

Hola!!!

Last night we had some very fun interesting group bonding. Emily started us off with some surprisingly really good opera singing. G-banks (Mr. Eubanks) tried to follow that by singing one of his favorite folk songs. Then, we finished our bonding with a group song of “Lean on Me.” This morning Audrey and I had the job of waking everyone up! I started off my day by falling right off of the bed, which made Audrey laugh very hard. When I woke Rachel up she shared with me that she woke up in the middle of the night to a dog trying to climb on her bed (don’t worry a small harmless dog). After everyone was up and packed we had a delicious breakfast of banana pancakes! Then, we headed to basket weaving. I think it is safe to say that we expected the weaving to be a lot easier than it really was. G-banks really struggled with this activity. Meredith’s basket was very well made thanks to the one on one assistance she received from one of the basket weavers (shhhhh). We all had a lot of fun making the baskets then putting them on our heads for lots of pictures. Now we are sitting at lunch. We really like this restaurant because it has American food haha. After we ordered we all went to look at the markets for Peruvian clothes. Peter and I bought “fabulous” (-peter) matching blue alpaca sweaters for a good price thanks to Peter’s bargaining. After lunch we are headed to our homestays for the first time. We can’t wait to meet our homestay families! We are all very happy, healthy, and missing everyone at home!

Cate