Off to Peru- I almost slept with a priest!

Our plane was to leave at 5:00 pm today, Janurary 9. But it is delayed until 2:00 am in the morning. We spent a great day with Marci. We ate corn beef sandwiches for dinner and then headed to the airport. It is freezing in the terminal. They announce the time every 15 minutes, so just as you slip into sleep you are awake. This is going to be a LONG first day of travel. If all goes well, we get into Peru at 7:30 in the morning. ----------- FOG We landed at 7:30 in the morning, Janurary 10 in a different city. Chiclayo, We are one hour north of Lima. The weather was too bad to land in Lima. People in the front of the plane did not know that the back of the plane was empty. Jack had three seats and I had two seat to sleep on. We both slept about 3 1/2 hours. 11:00 --- we got off the plane to be sent to a hotel for lunch. There were four large planes with many people here at the same time. So, on the bus and then they require us to check into a hotel room, give them our passports, and all we wanted was lunch. They insisted we had to have three in a room. So we agreed to sleep with Bruce, a Walt Whitman poet that is here doing research on beatles. And Father Rafael that is here with a group of priests doing work for three months. His great, great grandfather was Samuel Abrams, a Jew. He looked like Bernie Bauers twin. His best friend was a priest at the Community Day School when it was a church. Jack told him it was not too late to go back to the true faith. He did a quick swing of his arms to say a blessing before the meal. We were eating , maybe 150 people in a banquet room, tough beef and rice and mashed potatoes, creamed soup. The man says flight 1515 is leaving. So we never finished the meal, which was very good. The plane left for Lima at 2:45 and I am so thirsty. Could use some water. My roommates, almost!


4:15 arrive in Lima. Security at airport is very good. 5:45 at hotel. The elevator is broken, so we walk up three floors to our room. The room is plain and clean. We met the guide, Pavel, and our 12 other travel people. I think we have a good group. Dinner was nice. A quick walk around part of the city and off to bed. Pavel works for all the different travel groups. He says the only difference with a Taulk tour is the fancy hotel. Same tour buses, guides, restaurant , places to visit. I have the iPad working and I hope someone reads this. So let the vacation begin!! Lima, Peru here we come. Posted by Ruth

Location:Independencia,Lima,Peru