Peru Day 1 and 2 Lima

Our internet tonight is really slow tonight. So I am doing the blog from my phone. I hope to have photos up once I get a better connection. We love comments on the blog and we do share them with the kids each day!

 

Mr. Thornton

 

Day 2

 

Today was a day filled with sightseeing, new experiences, and new knowledge. We started out eating breakfast at the hotel. It was a great selection of food with food that we are familiar with, and food that was new too us. After breakfast we walked through Lima to the friendship park. It has this huge statue of two couples kissing, and every year on Valentines Day the park hosts a longest kiss contest! The park was beautiful and was full of mosaics. It also had a full view of the ocean. I've personally never been to a rock ocean and I like it even better than the traditional sand ocean!

 

After seeing the ocean veiw for so long from the friendship park we finally made our way down what seemed like hundreds of stairs to the beach. This was my favorite part of the day,  we watched the waves crash against the rocks, and occasionally run away when the wave became too big and rushed towards us. After we couldn't stand it anymore Kaylin and I took off our shoes, rolled up our pants and waded into the ocean. We laughed, running away from waves. Something was bound to go wrong, and soon enough Kaylin fell down while running from a wave! Her entire back was soaked, so we decided to dry off and take pictures. 

 

From the beach we walked what seemed like forever to lunch. The chicken and fries were very good, and I tried a Peruvian drink called Chicha. It was very sweet, but also very good. Directly after lunch we didn't have much time, but we rushed over to the grocery store to get water. I ended up somehow also getting pomogranite seeds.... 

 

As we ate our snacks on the bus, our tour guide Omar talked to us about the history of Lima and the monuments around us. We stopped at a Montessori and took a quick tour of it, and a creepy tour of the catacombs below it. There was tons of femur bones and skulls, and lots of low doorways. As we left the Montessori there were tons of vendors trying to sell us anything, and there was some awkward conversations trying to tell them no. 

 

To end off the night we went to a beautiful museum and did a scavenger hunt with our chaperone groups. We were all really tired and mostly slept on the bus to dinner. Dinner was delicious, and we got to walk to the hotel from the resteraunt and got a good feeling of how the streets are. Along the way, our friends and us laughed and told many jokes. It  practically made our night. Once we got to our hotel, we stopped  momentarily and disgusted the times and  schedules! The finish the night off strong, we finally got to lay in our beds and fall asleep, but with the disappointment of knowing that we have to wake up at five! 

 

- Kaylin and Nicki

 

Day 1

 

Our first day was really long. We all made it to Peru safe and sound! However by the time we got to our hotel and bed it was 3 a.m. in the morning. We were up and I breakfast by 9 a.m. the next morning for day 2. This made for a very tired group on Day 2