Weekend

This weekend´s been pretty chilled out. On Friday we went to Chinchero and taught them a bit about the olympics and various flags, then held a "Chinchero Olympics" with games like memory, twister and bowling, which was really fun. I had my hair braided Peruvian style which was not as such attractive and quite painful but really fun, I looked like a snake afterwards though, and when I took the braids out my hair was all crimped which was funny. We went to Fallen Angel, the same place we went for my birthday, for dinner, where you can get an incredible steak for 8pounds- seriously, I don´t even like steak, but these ones are amazing. Then we went to Rootes bar afterwards for cocktails but I nearly fell asleep in the chair, in fact I might´ve actually fallen asleep (Lauren snapped a really funny picture of me that I didn´t notice so maybe I was), so I went home about 1am which was a bit lame but I was desperate for sleep, the week had been so busy.
On Saturday we were going to get up and walk around Lake Huakapay but we´re doing that next Saturday instead now because we were too tired and a bit sad that Sam had left. Instead me and Heather had a little wander around San Blas and went to the artisans market, and to a few other shops, and waited half an hour to get served at a bakery for a sandwich- truly we´re on Peruvian time. In the evening we went to Inkafe, a restaurant, with Lauren and Laura, one of the girls from the hostel, which was really nice, and then we got an early night.
This morning we were up early and went to Pisac market, we got a taxi there and a local bus back which was a nice way round. We wandered round the market for a couple of hours, its amazing and pretty cheap as well, I bought a few presents for everyone back home but not too much because I´m not sure how much I can fit in my suitcase! We had lunch at The Real McCoys and watched a bit of olympics, and then me and Heather came back to the hostel and chilled out, I finished the book Lilly lent me and Lauren packed for her trek, which she goes on tomorrow, but gets back on Thursday.
Tonight we´re going to go up Gringo Alley for dinner, hopefully with Helen, and then maybe come back and watch a movie, I bought "Enchanted" but it might be a dodgy copy.
Anyway, yep, not a particularly exciting weekend maybe compared to some of the others but it´s been really nice to just chill out a bit. I can´t believe I´ve had my last full weekend here now, I leave next Sunday morning so I´ve got less than a week left in Cuzco. I´ll be absolutely gutted to leave and will probably cry a lot, I think it´ll be difficult readjusting to being back home, but I´m so excited about seeing you all at home that that softens the blow a bit and it´ll be nice to be back though so sad to leave, I have really mixed feelings about it.
I´m off for dinner now but so much love to everyone, miss you all and will see you in about 9 days...
love amy xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx