Best day ever, followed by the best day ever

WHAT a couple of days. Honestly, 2 best day evers in a row, who would have thunk it possible. What will top these days, possibly tomorrow!

So day one started with Nili and I arriving in Lima, after a night journey at 5 in the morning. Lima, especially its bus stops, is not the safest city in the world. Our plan was to catch a bus straight to Pisco but with no internet nearby and no idea what bus to take we were kind of lost. We sat in the bus station for an hour until 6 when we noticed that everyone except a fewsketchy looking men had left. To play it safe we found a cab driver willing to drive around looking for an open breakfast joint. After a half hour with no luck he pulled up in front of a fancy hotel. The bellboys outside informed us that they had a buffet breakfast for 7 dollars a pop. Normally 7 dollars would have been absurd, and we never would have accepted, but at 6 in the morning with nowhere to go we decided to splurge. However, spending that kind of money, we decided we were going to ave to get our moneys worth, and that we did. We ate for 2 hours striaght. The meal went like this...Fresh orange juice,3 rolls per person, jam, butter, cheese olives, papaya juice, scrambled eggs, mini hot dogs, pineapple juice, yogurt, tea, pancakes, cereal, pancakes again, more tea and then juice. By the end we were ready to explode, had all the waiters laughing at us, and the head lady of the hotel pissed off. After breakfast we managed to sweet talk our way into free internet also. Then we decided to go to my aunts house.We slept for a few hours, then had a wonderful lunch with her and my cousin. Then we did some window shopping, followed by a McDonalds feast. Then we caught a movie, and then went home to sleep. WHAT A DAY!

SO today we, Nili andI, are in Paracas, near Pisco. We are staying at my cousins cousins hostel,which is super awesome because it is free and wonderfully located. We slept late and then headed to lunch. I had wonderful ceviche. Then we headed to the beach where we met Hugo. Hugo is guy who travels around selling hand made jewelry. I bought the most beautiful bracelet which he insisted he made by hand. Ithink he could tell we werea little skeptical and he offered to meet us on the boardwalk anhour later to show us how he does it. So we took a nap on the beach and met him after an hour. We spent the rest of the day sitting on a blanket where he sells his jewelry and learning to make bracelets.He also demonstrated how he makes metal jewelry and gave us each one earring. Tomorrow after a boat tour of the ballestas islands we toild him that wewill return and learn to make the matching pair. I tried to insist to pay for the materials but he completely refused saying that this is the way he learned and its how the craft continues. So freakin awesome.

Peace out

Nicole