Peru July 20

Ok, I wrote too much on the first day because I had a lot of down time. That won’t happen again. I woke up, ready for a nice hot shower. Well, what I didn’t know is there was no hot water. So I took my first running shower ever. I did not stop moving once. I then watched some soccer and took a cab to the airport. I waited there for 20 minutes until it said on the screen that Vaughn’s plane had arrived. I got all excited and jumped up to go wait for him at the ”Domestic Arrivals” gate. Then I waited some more. And after that, some more. After 45 minutes of waiting after Vaughn’s plane arrived, I decided I would go look elsewhere for him in case I was in the wrong spot. Right when I bent over to pick up my bags, low and behold, Vaughn arrives. Finally. He arrived with three friends: Sarah, Hanna and Steven. They were very nice people and they were coming to Arequipa with us. So we hopped in a cab to find a bus station in downtown Lima (so sketchy by the way) and we ended up riding Cromotex, a member of the prestigious Marco Polo bus family. Unfortunately, we had to wait a couple hours until our bus left. So, since we were hungry, we decided to ask someone where a good place to eat is. Vaughn found a guy and asked him which way we should go to find a decent place to eat, and the guy responded with something along these lines, “I wouldn’t go that way (pointing down the street) because there is a good chance you might get stabbed, and that way (pointing up the street) has less of a chance of a stabbing.” Needless to say we decided to stay the bus station. When we got on the bus, it was a lot nicer than expected. The seats were nice (not as roomy as preferred though), it was a double-decker, and 90’s movie theme songs’ music videos were playing on the television. HEAVEN!!! And then, before I could bask in the pure magnificence of the Lion King, Top Gun and Titanic music videos, the lady put in the most amazing (cheesiest) informational video on Marco Polo buses that I have ever seen!! And you think that’s impressive, after it I watched my first Japanese movie about alien dogs, dubbed over in Spanish!!! I must have just been killed and sent to walk through the Golden Gates!!! The dinner was quite good actually. It was some sort of chicken dish with potatoes and rice, and a tiny head of broccoli (just the way I like it). And we all slept like shit on the bus overnight.