Hey from Ayacucho

So I am in Ayacucho. This will be really quick since I am about to leave to go to a "peñas" around Ayacucho. These are famous peruvians live music night clubs. What makes them so unique is the fact they play Andean folk music, criollo music, and huayno. I've heard that they are awesome, and I am very excited. Supposedly the ones in Lima are really touristy but these are "real" (which I am guessing just means, it has less tourists and more locals). Ayacucho, for being such a small town, seems to have a very good night life. As soon as the sun sets I hear random fireworks going off and painting the sky. They don't seem to be premeditated as they happen at the most random times and without any pattern as far as I can see (this is sometimes to my embarassment, since when these fireworks catch me off guard I have a tendency to jump in alert ready to dive from whatever bomb is coming my way...understandably, this provides a lot of entertainment for the locals.) *Jumps* See! Another firework just went off!! I simply cannot get used to them.

Erm. Well, back to my point...the night life, so the night life here is pretty good. First of all, in the two out of the two nights that I have been here I have seen party-procession parades every night. I do not know what for, I can only assume they are religious holidays that somehow I, as a fellow Catholic, am not aware of. It's odd, I had been so bumbed that I wasn't coming during a religious holiday (this place is perfect for those times), yet I am seeing exactly what I imagined would happen during these days. I can only imagine how magnificient the major processions must be!

Anyway, gotta run. Got lots of pictures!