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Thursday, May 30, 2024 - Working RemotelyI woke up at 7 a.m. and started working in the casita. When I went outside to go upstairs at 9 o'clock for my meeting, Kuri was waiting with hugs and a big smile. Aida said that he was waiting for us to wake up.When I have meetings at mealtime, Craig, Aida, and/or the kids make multiple trips upstairs to bring me food, which is very kind of them. This morning they brought coffee as well as scrambled eggs with ham, bread, and yogurt. Today my meeting ended early so I brought my food back downstairs and continued eating with the family in the kitchen. After breakfast, I went back upstairs for more meetings. The kids visited Craig in the casita. Since it was a nice, sunny day, it was a good day to do laundry. Not only is it more pleasant to wash clothes by hand in cold water when the sun is out, but it also dries faster on the clotheseline. Nena helped Aida wash the laundry at the outdoor sink. She stood on a chair so that she could reach, and washed her fleece jacket. It was very cute. 
I was done with work for the day when it was time for lunch. We had soup, beef stew, rice, fries, broccoli, carrots, and chochos. Everyone still remembers when Shina was little and said that she would eat "solo chochos" (only lupins). It has become a catch phrase. Sisa came home from school after lunch. Great-great uncle Juan Pedro visited, carrying a whip. This normally might have seemed intimidating, but we know it is a prop for the upcoming Inti Raymi dances. We heard the sound of the ice cream truck and ran out to meet it. It wasn't like the ice cream trucks we have at home; it was a pickup truck with a soft serve machine in the back. We bought enough ice cream for everyone (8 cones at 30 cents each). Inflation had hit Morochos; these cones always used to cost a quarter, LOL. They were strawberry vanilla swirl with rainbow chispitas (sprinkles). Kuri was excitedly eating his, getting ice cream all over his face and in his hair. However, he was holding the cone sideways, and before we could even get to him to try to coax him to hold it upright, the ice cream fell out of the cone and onto the ground. He started to cry, and Aida swooped in to rescue the ice cream into a bowl (the 5 second rule is more of a 5 minute rule here). We sat with Sisa while she ate a late lunch, and had a nice chat. We reminisced about the time that we took her to the Galapagos. She couldn't believe that it was already 5 years ago. Together we watched the video we had made of the trip. She had made such a good travel companion, and she learned so much on the trip. We had been able to take her as a minor because Galapagos is in her own country. We would love to take her traveling internationally, but we told her that we will have to wait until she is 18. Human trafficking is a big problem, so traveling internationally with children without their parents is possible, but very difficult. You need to have notarized legal documents, etc. But she will be turning 18 in a couple of years, and then the sky's the limit! Sisa looked at us slyly and asked if we wanted another godchild. We must have looked surprised. Was Aida pregnant again? Then she laughed. "My daughter! My cat!" We laughed and said that we would be godparents to her cat. Dinner was soup, llapingachos (crispy croquettes of mashed potato), chicken, rice, and radishes. We returned to our casita at 9:30 p.m. |
 Shina delivering ice cream cones  Kuri, seconds before his ice cream hit the ground Photo Gallery May 30 |
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