Peru!

Happy 4th of July, from Peru!!
I believe that this is my first 4th of July out of the country, but a bunch of Americans...and some Brits...and I are having a BBQ bonfire on the beach tonight, so it feels a little bit like we´re home!

Anyway, I finally made it to Peru, after one cancelled flight and a million hour layover in San Salvador. But I arrived in one piece, and my friend Tito met me at the airport. I went back to his house in Lima, we hung out for a bit, and then I proceeded to pass out and sleep until NOON! I have no idea where that came from, but I havent slept late in months, so I guess my body needed it. We had lunch with his family, which was nice to practice my spanish for an extended period of time, and then we spent a few hours at the orphanage where Tito volunteers, which was nice and interesting to compare to the orphanages that I volunteered at in Guatemala and Mexico.

I then took an overnight bus 9 hours north to Huanchaco, a small beach town where my friend Kate from my Costa Rica trip is spending the summer. It has been FANTASTIC just hanging out and catching up, and all we do is talk about Costa Rica, which really makes me miss it and all of our friends.
The weather has been a nice change of pace...its winter here, and definately much colder than its been for me since January. I´m wearing long sleeves, and drinking tea, and taking hot showers! Exciting stuff. I do miss the sun, but its nice to not be sweating 24 hours a day.

So all is great with me. I cannot believe that its already July...the time is flying by, and I know that these next few weeks are going to go by even faster. But i´m just trying to enjoy every minute and take advantage of the time I still have left!