Well folks, after an EXTREMELY long and tiring two days...I´M IN CUZCO!! And let me tell ya, it´s absolutely incredible. Let me tell you about my journey. (Warning: this will not be a very exciting post.)
My travels started at 3:30 am on Saturday, when my mom and I picked up Kassie and drove up to the Salt Lake airport. Getting there was an experience in and of itself, because Lil Miss Utah decided to have a blizzard. Oh yes. At the end of April. So that was nerve-wracking. BUT we made it to the airport on time and got on our 6:40 flight to San Fransisco.
Landed in San Fran at about 9..ish...and stood in lines and junk for a good majority of our 5 hour layover there. Whee. Caught the 1:55 pm flight to Lima...
...Which was nine stinkin hours long. Ugh. However, we passed the time with movies and games and it wasn´t TOO unbearable. We landed in Lima about midnight, and as we got off the plane we were informed that we were going to be put on an earlier flight to Cuzco. We were ecstatic, seeing as we were expecting a seven hour over-night layover in the Lima airport. It turned out to only be five hours with the earlier flight, and that was manageable. We exhanged some money for ¨soles¨ and headed to a pay phone to call the dude that was supposed to pick us up and had a heck of a time figuring out which coins to use haha :) But we finally figured it out and arranged to have the guy pick us up at the right time, and then headed to the gate. We took turns trying to get a few minutes of sleep while waiting at the gate, which didn´t really work cause it was pretty darn uncomfortable, but hey. We tried.
We finally got on the 5:35 am flight and flew for an hour into...drum roll please...CUZCO!! Flying over the city was SO cool, it´s just this little city nestled away in the mountains. They picked us up from the airport, and took us to the Maximo Nivel offices and showed us around there for a little bit, and then took us to our accomodation. We are staying in a little house with about five other volunteers (we got the ¨overflow¨ house) and they seem pretty nice! And it´s only two blocks away from the offices so we don´t even have to take a taxi.
I´ve only been here for a few hours and I´m already in love with the city. So many cool people and things to see, and I can´t wait to explore it all!
Love you all, more later.
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