san juan

We finally arrived in San Juan at about mid-day on Saturday after a miserable 24-hours of travel from Perú. It actually went about as well as could be hoped for - no cancelled flights, no lost luggage and only one unflattering freak-out by moi in the Lima airport (claustrophobia is my defense). Anyway - we all finally ensconced with our families and I have been having a great time. My new host family is a couple that are both 31-yrs old with two kids - one 7 years and one at about 2 years. The whole scandal that I created by not traveling with Bob? Forget about it. That was completely generational. My new family has friends that work for the mines, so the men (usually) are away for a week or more at a time and the women work and then go visit friends on the weekends. Well, the friends and cousins of my new family think that I should get a Sanjuanino boyfriend because I have my Argentine cell phone back in my possession. I think the only boyfriend I will have is 7-years old. Meet Federico, proudly wearing his new Princeton t-shirt - we enjoy doing puzzles and watching tv. Forgive the sideways picture, I can´t figure out how to edit it without actually putting it on my host´s computer.....