Peruvian birthday #2

My second birthday in Peru was a day full of fun. First, lunch with the fam and sitemates - obvio, we had cuy.

New 21er sitemates: Linnea's excited for her first taste of cuy, and Gabe's too cool for school 'cause he's already a cuy pro

The whole gang, minus Javi

Lunch also included a plethora of fun treats: a crocheted shawl from my host mom, hand-carved wooden buttons from my host dad, wine from Linnea and Gabe, 1-sol mini beers from my (somewhat crazy) host uncle, and a soccer ball and real Betty Crocker frosting from Jess.

After lunch, it was baking time. Javi knows how much I like to make bread in our clay oven, so we spent the afternoon preparing some delicious loaves for dinner. And since we had the oven going anyway, my host mom threw a birthday cake in there too :)

Checking the cake's status with a flashlight

The end result, largely thanks to Jess' frosting, was a beautiful cake, complete with a mini-Meghan my host mom found in god-knows-what random Peruvian store. She even had freckles!