Eggs and Liquor???

Eggs and Liquor???

Stove Shop

Halloween here too

Defaced defacing political posters

Gene Hackman's Peruvian twin

Layers of political posters

How did they get up there?

Fresh fruit

Dried fruit

Rope and hose store

ooh la la Shar-pei

Cusqueno pre-colombian art museum

Cusqueno pre-colombian art museum

Cusqueno pre-colombian art museum

Cusqueno pre-colombian art museum

Cusqueno pre-colombian art museum

Cusqueno pre-colombian art museum

Cusqueno pre-colombian art museum

Cusqueno pre-colombian art museum

Cusqueno pre-colombian art museum

Cusqueno pre-colombian art museum

Cusqueno pre-colombian art museum

Cusqueno pre-colombian art museum

Cusqueno pre-colombian art museum

Cusqueno pre-colombian art museum

Cusqueno pre-colombian art museum

Cusqueno pre-colombian art museum

On Sunday we traveled to Izcuchaca for the last time for a while. Amazingly, the taxis and cars worked liked we had arranged them personally. We got out of the taxi and right into a car for Izcuchaca, and later, as we were walking to the place to get a car back to Cusco, a car stopped and picked us up long before we arrived at the stop. When we arrived back in Cusco, we got right into another taxi to bring us home. This NEVER happens here, it was a strange occurrence. Rich had his first mission presidency meeting Sunday afternoon and was set apart as the second counselor. He has a huge list of things to do! It will keep us busy.

Our week was pretty calm with Julie teaching her English classes and Rich teaching the Isaiah class and Book of Mormon Institute class. Yesterday, Sunday, was Election Day in Peru. All during the week we have seen last minute posters being put up and a big push from all eight political parties in Peru. We had to laugh at some of the “junior high” antics we witnessed. People were putting posters over other political party posters and then the “covered up party” would come out at night and try to rip the posters down that were covering their political choice. Because of this, the streets and sidewalks have been covered with torn up posters. What a mess!

Though the official close out date to campaign was Wednesday, you just cannot harness some people’s patriotic zeal. The noise and new posters went on right to the last. In the end, Cusco has a new mayor and there will have to be a runoff election between the two major vote gatherers for the departmental governor’s slot. The good news has been that the political campaigning pretty much obviates the practice of striking. We have been surprisingly strike free of late. Doubtless, that will not last.

We enjoyed staying home this past weekend to watch our church’s General Conference. It was wonderful to hear it in English. It can be so distracting to listen to the translators over the English. Because of the elections here, all of Peru could not hold any kind of public meeting, so there were no church meetings. General Conference will be broadcast all over Peru this next weekend and we’ll be able to catch some of the conference again in Spanish while we’re in Abancay. It was great to have some of the talks in the speakers’ native language, two in Spanish, one in Portuguese and one in Cantonese.