Dear Mery and all our wonderful friends at Kuoda,
I hope you did not think that we had forgotten you. On the contrary, we think of you very often and even spoke of our wonderful trip with friends over the holiday season. They were very impressed and were thinking of visiting Peru, but it turns out the wife cannot be at high altitudes above 8,000 feet, so I think they will not be able to come unless they skip some of the really wonderful sites that Peru has to offer. We loved the wonderful pictures you sent, which remind us of our visit to the local village. It is always delightful to see the smiling faces of the children. Every day I enter my front door and see some of the beautiful objects we purchased there. So all of you and Peru are very much with us all year round.