Touristas!

On Tuesday we got to be Touristas! We took a cab and got downtown. There aren’t any seatbelt laws or rules about how many people can go in one cab. We piled 10 people into 2 cabs and were off. We made it to a city square where the president lives and where there are other government buildings.

We also went to the museum of congress and the inquisition

Then we went to the Catacombs that are under a huge catholic church. Back in the day, people who died in Lime and were Catholic were buried here. They excavated the first level of the catacombs in the 1940’s and 50’s and arranged the boned in neat orders. There are also two more levels of catacombs below but they are afraid to dig them up for fear that the church will collapse.

We also went and saw what used to be the wall that protected the city from pirates

It was a good day and we got to relax, enjoy ourselves, get to know some of the girls that go to the church, and explore a new part of the city. Below is a picture of the whole crew that was with us (minus Otto and Lydia).

Yesterday we walked to the beach. It was a little more than the ten minute walk that we were told about. Some other people from the church came with us and the whole way there people would teach me new vocabulary and then point at thing and I would say it in Spanish. I’m getting to the point that I can make some really simply sentences. I can’t wait to start Spanish classes next week! But here’s some of us at the beach, it’s quite rocky.

It was really neat to think that this is the same Pacific Ocean that I play in at Pismo or Santa Cruz.

After we left the beach we walked to a park to have a picnic lunch. We sat in the shade for a while and then walked until we caught a bus to take us home. All five of us girls are varying shades of red and pink. Surprisingly enough, I’m one of the least burnt! The sun here is quite intense because it’s a tropical sun so I even burned through my SPF 50 sunscreen a bit.