Song for Yesterday

Yesterday was not a typical Tuesday. After my afternoon seminar, about six of us (five girls and David, lol) went to a place near the Plaza in the Church of the Company called Cafe y Vino. Pretty easy to translate. So, at 4 in the afternoon yesterday, I was deciding which foreign red wine to try.

Warning: Mom, ya gonna get jealous.

Cuz what happened was the wine we wanted from Argentina was out. So the cute French waiter (happily married to a cute Peruvian girl...poo) offered us a Chilean or French wine for the same price of 43 soles. We wisely chose the French wine. (The name has slipped my mind...oops!)

Boy did we get a DEAL! That wine was the most delish I´ve had and was worth 95 soles! He gave it to us for half the price!!! So, I had a couple of glasses and snacked on some prosciutto and toast with cheese. It was perfect: a glass of French wine, a great view of the mountains and a seat on the upstairs patio of a 16th century church. I told ya not to be too jealous, Mom! :)

After going home for a quick nap, I met Kate and Kathleen at the mall a block from my house. They have a food court with AMERICAN food. A KFC, BK, Pizza Hut...heaven. Well, almost. I REALLY wanted a biscuit from KFC or onion rings from BK. You think they had ´um? Of course not. So, I settled for my tee-niny BK chicken sandwich. Tiny because Peruvians actually have sense and don´t supersize all of their food!

Then Kate and I left around 8:30 for a cool bar called Split. Here I found my fave drink...a Perfect Kiss. Look it up/try it! After that and a shared jar with the UNSA studens of a, sorry this is PG 13, Multiple Orgasm, we were ready to go dancing! We wandered the streets around the Plaza for an hour looking for somewhere cheap enough for all of us.

This is when the Song of the Day was sung. David, Kate, Ned and I sang Beyonce songs like Halo and Single Ladies the whole time. It was lovely, I must say. ;)

So here´s Halo. I sing this every single day because I love the lyrics and tune. I also like the music video because it does a good job showing the comfort level you come to find in a relationship. So READ the words, DANCE around the room and ENJOY!

PS - Amanda, I think this is our fave hottie in the music video. From Diary of a Mad Black Woman? Yowza!



Halo

Remember those walls I built
Well, baby they're tumbling down
And they didn't even put up a fight
They didn't even make up a sound

I found a way to let you in
But I never really had a doubt
Standing in the light of your halo
I got my angel now

It's like I've been awakened
Every rule I had you breakin'
It's the risk that I'm takin'
I ain't never gonna shut you out

Everywhere I'm looking now
I'm surrounded by your embrace
Baby I can see your halo
You know you're my saving grace

You're everything I need and more
It's written all over your face
Baby I can feel your halo
Pray it won't fade away

I can feel your halo halo halo
I can see your halo halo halo
I can feel your halo halo halo
I can see your halo halo halo

Hit me like a ray of sun
Burning through my darkest night
You're the only one that I want
Think I'm addicted to your light

I swore I'd never fall again
But this don't even feel like falling
Gravity can't forget
To pull me back to the ground again

Feels like I've been awakened
Every rule I had you breakin'
The risk that I'm takin'
I'm never gonna shut you out

Everywhere I'm looking now
I'm surrounded by your embrace
Baby I can see your halo
You know you're my saving grace

You're everything I need and more
It's written all over your face
Baby I can feel your halo
Pray it won't fade away

I can feel your halo halo halo
I can see your halo halo halo
I can feel your halo halo halo
I can see your halo halo halo