(Weekend, July 4-5, Day 17-18)

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Phrase of the day:
Que? Tu llamas este un hot spring? Tienes suerte que yo no hablo espanol!... What? You call this a hot spring? You're lucky I can't speak Spanish!

The weekend was packed, thankfully! On Saturday we had cultural classes from 7:30am until 12:30pm. I ended up in the arts & crafts class. To my surprise, it was fun. At first I thought it would only be lame things like making invitation cards, which I know for a fact we are doing at some point, but we actually did other things too. I made a scarf out of yarn using only my fingers (no needles or what not). Maybe not that impressive, but I'm not Rajib:
And don't be jealous of my blue/green/pink flowery bed cover either!

After class I somehow ended up going to some "hot springs" with some other kids... Oh wow, are the hot springs just around the bend?
Umm nope, not really, haha.
It was still a good time. I was just happy to not be studying in my room. (don't mind the expression on my face, I think the sun was just in my eyes... I did enjoy it for sure... and no, i wasn't flexing! or i'm always flexing? i didn't know the picture was being taken).
Oddly, in the evening, I ended up at the Mr. Cayambe body building competition. I'm not going to lie, I definitely could have taken one of two of those guys!

For the third Sunday in a row, I ended up watching people dance down the streets of Cayambe. This week it was for real dance groups. And This group was naturally my favorite:
Oh my, I can't believe I haven't mentioned this as yet. They love having Miss ________ here. Like there is a queen (Reina) for anything and everything. Last weekend there was the Miss Cayambe Paegant. Then last night at the Mr. Cayambe body building competition, there was some other Miss ___(Gold's Gym?)___. Yeah, who thought that would be a good idea?... Well, once again, there were Reinas on the floats yesterday:

And yup, she's looking at me...
How was your 4th of July!?! Man, I missed being home with everyone! I hope you all lived it up!

After the parade, we went to a park in a nearby town and had a bbq. There were about 30 of us who made the trip. I don't have pics because it was drizzling, but everyone definitely needed it. Kids blasted (english) music, ate hot dogs/hamburgers/grilled cheese sandwhiches/smores, and even played some kickball...