Picnic in Cusco

May 1^st is labor day in much of the world LINK. So last weekend was a three day weekend. Victoria, Lucia, and Jacqueline all travelled. Theresa, Erin and I stayed home. But on Friday we went into Cusco with Luciana, one of the psychology students from la Católica who is staying until August. It's nice to have other people in town who are our age and we can hang out with. A lot of our social life is with people much older than us.

We had a picnic in the afternoon. Theresa took us to a site called Q'enko, which sits at the lip of the Cusco valley, so that the city is spread out beneath you. We brought bread, advocado, cheese, tomatoes, and wine with us. To drink the wine we had to ask some folks at a restaurant to open the bottles for us and we also had to buy plastic glasses at Plaza Vea, a megastore in Cusco. We spent the whole afternoon at Q'enko, and only climbed down to Cusco when it started to get dark.

Cristo Blanco, which stands above Cusco and is lit up at night.

In the city, we stopped at an ice cream shop. Ice cream is expensive on our budget, so it was a rare treat. The funnest part of the ice cream shop was the sign above the toilet in the bathroom:

If you say so.

After ice cream we went to the Museo de Pisco, which despite meaning “the Pisco Museum” is actually a bar. We spent awhile there and then took a taxi home. All in all, a nice outing.

At Museo de Pisco

Plaza de Armas at night