Friday! (And some happy anniversary wishes)

Friday means we're done with classes for the week.  We celebrated with an outing for what are supposed to be the best hamburgers in Cuenca, which were indeed pretty good, at a fancy cafe in Parque San Sabastian, my favorite spot in the center of Cuenca.

We took a few minutes to lunch to call my parents, who are visiting my brother and his family in Florence, to wish them a Happy 55th Anniversary!  Another great milestone in a long, happy time together.

It's fitting that they are in Italy on this big day.  My siblings and I are all big travelers, an avocation which comes from our parents, who took us on extended trips abroad starting when we were very young (and international travel was considerably more difficult...they didn't even have tripadvisor, if you can believe it).  If our parents had not opened up our eyes to the possibilities of travel when we were kids, it's unlikely that I would have travelled as much as I have, or that it would have ever even occurred to us to embark on this big trip.

So...Thanks Mom & Dad...And Happy Anniversary from Cuenca!!!

Happy Anniversary from the Andes!