Buenos días del Perú!! (Good morning from Peru, for those of you who are seriously monolingual, hehe.)
As you may have noticed by my previous status update, we did, in fact, arrive safely in Cusco. We even slept pretty decently on our red-eye flight from New York to Lima, so that´s pretty good!
So far we´ve pretty much just been resting and getting settled in. I have been feeling the effects of the altitude (though thankfully not nearly as bad as last time!), so I took a lot of naps the last few days, and Daniel has very graciously been running around on various quests for some maté de coca (coca tea, which helps with altitude sickness).
Adolfo (the doctor from the clinic that Daniel´s been working with) came and got us from the airport and has been more or less taking care of us since then. He found a little one-room apartment where we´ll be staying for the time being, and it´s super cute and perfect! Also yesterday we got to meet a lot of his family -- his wife, Cheryl, is gorgeous and super nice, and their son, Rafael (aka Rafo) is 6 and adorable!! We also got to meet one of his brothers, his niece and nephew, and his mother. We all went out to lunch yesterday, and Cesar (the nephew) was HILARIOUS -- he reminds me of Russell from the movie Up, because he´s about 12, a little portly, and full of questions (and knowledge) about everything! I really want to find a way to videotape him saying "bop bop beep bohp boop", but Daniel said that was mean, so I probably won´t.
Today we are exploring our surroundings. The apartment we´re staying in is located in a part of Cusco that is a ways off the main tourist drag (Avenida del Sol), so we don´t know the area terribly well. Our quests for today are to find an internet cafe (done, obviously) and then a map. Also, we found a sweet breakfast restaurant like 2 doors down from our apartment and ate there this morning -- "desayuno" (breakfast) consisted of noodle soup, a plate of rice with meat and veggies, and a cup of tea and cost us 3 soles (just over $1 US). Win!
Well, that´s about it for now. We´re still settling in and getting our bearings, but I will certainly post more updates as they become available. =) Hope you all are enjoying the summer sunshine back in the States.
Un abrazo fuerte! (A big hug!)
--Rebequita y Danielito
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