I feel obliged to put a title on this post, but nothing really comes to mind: hence this

     We are having network issues in Cusco, so I'm not sure how regularly I am going tol be able to post but I will try.
     Yesterday we had yet another spanish class, and are a little ready for a break but are most of the way done with the week.  The weather is being really unpredictable here--sunny then cloudy then thunderstormy.  Last night we say a few flashes of lightning, and it was raining pretty hard but this morning it looks sunny, if a little grey.
     Last night we also went to the Cusco Planetarium, which is something that a family does out of their house.  They talked about how the Incans viewed the sky, and also about the southern-hemisphere constellations (VERY different from the sky as we are used to it).  It was a little touristy, but it was interesting.  The highlight of the evening was probably their big white dog, Gandalf.  He seemed really calm and well-behaved around strangers for being only a year and a half old.  I can't imagine Lillie being that way, and she is five.
     Then this morning our spanish class started a half an hour later than usual, so we would hev been theoretically able to sleep in if not for the multitude of barking dogs.  Speaking of which, I am exercising an enormous amount of willpower not to go pet them all, but we haven't had our rabies vaccines.  On our street there are a couple of dogs that go onto the roofs of their houses and bark at people passing by.  It is always a little disconserting to have to look up to see the (small!) dog that is barking at you ferociously.
     After spanish my mother and I walked to a vegetarian restaurant to meet my dad.  The restaurant was called Giovanda's, and there I had the worst smoothie of my life and a distinctly odd potato-like-concoction.  It did not match the glowing description we heard about it.
      This afternoon we went to the Incan museum.  This was interesting, and there was some very beautiful modern weaving as well as some amazing few-thousand-year-old weavings and pottery, but we were all very tired and didn't stay to see all of it.  We came home and are spending the evening
in--making potato salad, practicing, and skyping with a friend.
    I will try to post a couple of the pictures from yesterday, but if you do not see them that is because I couldn't get them to load and if you also happen to see this message that is because the wi-fi is too awful to come back and edit it.