What Happens on Tour Stays on Tour

Unless you read it on our blog of course!

We have just spent our first day in Lima. Well almost a first day because we got to the hotel at 2am last night and then slept until 1pm today. We are not as lazy as you think though, we had to fly via LA which means we were in the air for 22hrs plus 5 hours in line for US customs after filling in our¨were you ever in the Nazi party?¨ questionnaire. Then when Matt got pulled up on the national security watch list he couldn´t sit down for the first 5 hours of the Peru leg.

Lima is an attractive city and we´ve enjoyed spending today just people watching. Meredith is also making a mental list of all the alpaca yarn shops we have to visit on our return in a couple of weeks.

Our phrase book is getting a good workout, the only slip up was ordering 3 main meals at the restaurant tonight—and we couldn´t work out why she was looking at us like we were greedy pigs! She didn´t say anything, maybe she thought we were looking for a super-sized American meal!

There is no sign of the earthquake except for a relief effort drive being run from the centre of town. There were also a few aid workers on our flight to Peru as well as many red cross teams at the airport.

Tomorrow we are going to head to check out the coast and a monastery with some good catacombs. Real skulls have been promised!