Peruvian police, oh my!

I'm aloooone in Lima. People in my room were loud this morning so I got up waaaaay early even though I don't have anything to do, haha. I think I might go to the mall Nicki suggested and see the pacific ocean for the first time! Then I'll go to the aeroporto. The guy at the front desk keeps calling me Amy winehouse, lol. I am updating this on my iPod. Enjoy my typos. I like peruvian food. I like cusco better than Lima. I wanna go to the jungle. We deeeefinitely didn't have enough time. :( I wanna go back to to the sacred valley. I love the skirts the traditional women wear here and I want one. Idk what it says about me when I kept admiring the old ladies' outfits. And I'm being serious! I looooove their skirts. I would like to ride in a crammed bus with random Peruvian men again. In the light. So I can see the Andes. The stars were goooorgeous, though. Nicki compared them to powdered sugar. I wanted to get off the bus and just lay in a field somewhere.

K. This is too annoying to update on an iPod. I think I wanna learn spanish. My pronunciation is a lot better in Spanish than deutsch... I wanna go back to deutschland, though. I miss Oma and opa and nomborn. I'm afraid to talk German to any Germans 'cause my pronunciation is so bad. Heh.

Buenos Dias!

MOSQUITOS. BOTFLIES.

Some mosquito bit meeee. And apparently Peruvian mosquitos are vicious and their bites are like bleeding pinpricks. So now I´m all worried I got a botfly ´cause Nicki informs me botflies don´t bite; they spread their larvae on mosquitos who then transmit them to people.

OH OK. NICE.

Nicki wants a pet botfly.

Hi. Here are some llamas and stuff.

LLAMA BUTT.




DO YOU LIKE MY SOCKS WITH MY BIRKENSTOCKS? HEE HEE. so we barely slept last night (like...1.5 hours; thanks, train ride) but still decided to try huayna picchu. and it was scary and stuff. except we found out we did the wussy one? i don't know. allll i know is it involved climbing a little wall with a rope...then coming back down. so i slid. on my butt. down the side. and almost died a few times and stuff.

nicki apparently is a pro-hiker. I AM NOT. scaling huayna picchu was enough for meeee.

i want a pet llama, bitte.

ayyyyy, mama! quo pasooooo? there was a group of traveling hippies on the bus yesterdaaay. they sang a song. me and nicki wanted to adopt one and give him a bath. he had pretty eyes but terrrrrible hair and looked like he hadn't bathed in a week but AHAHAHA, they were cool. i want to beeeee them!

there was also a man who was singing random songs about dawn sitting right up on me in the back of the bus. he asked me my name; i said "amy"; he apparently said "amy" meant i belonged to him in spanish; nicki translated, so my only appropriate response was SOY LIBREEEEE which nicki had taught me moments before. but dude kept grabbing my arm. i mean, he was nice. but. um. hi, personal space? you have lots of room over theeeere. dude, this bus was amazing, though. me and nicki were in the back row and the seats weren't latched down so every time we hit a bump (which was constant) we'd wobble and bump and almost fly out.

hahahahaha, awwwwwwesome.

p.s. nicki tells me "amy" translated to HIM as "a" and "mi." and "a" is possessive. so. apparently my parents gave me a name that means i am owned by peruvian men.

Hi. I have slept.

I am drinking milky instant coffee, which reminds me of a book I won't name, but I always thought it sounded nasty but it's kinda good. Also, drinkiing coca tea 'cause my head's a bit woooozy. I think I'm giving myself imaginary altitude sickness, haha. I woke up this morning and was like, "I CAN'T BREATHE." I could breathe, but sometimes I catch my breath a little. Should be interesting hiking...

Also, my Birkenstocks are AMAZING. Nicki and I were walking around Cusco with our completely sleep deprived bodies and every part of my body BUT my feet was compaining, and Nicki said her shoes were bothering her feet. Her sneakers. THAT'S RIGHT, MY LOVELY BIRKENSTOCKS. I love you.

Man, I think I'm gonna take pics of this hostel 'cause it's amazing. The German/French guy next to me is talking about baby alpacas. Can I take baby alpaca home with me?

I just realized I mentioned dogs in the blog yesterday, but not why. There are sooo many stray dogs here. Everywhere. Poor perros.

Oh man. Apparently you kill the baby alpaca to make baby alpaca haired sweaters? NOT BUYING ONE. No sirree.

Anyway, as soon as we got here there was a huge billboard for a Big Mac welcoming us. Oh. OK.

K, we're leaving soon. I just have to finish drinking my milky coffee and coca tea.

P.S. Twitter sucks. I keep trying to get it to load and it won't. Where am I supposed to put my instant updates?! Shame, shame.

P.P.S. Nicki was telling me about these guys who were in Bolivia and how apparently they have Bolivian women fighting in Bolivia? They fight in their hoop skirts? For entertainment? Um.

P.P.P.S. PERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRO.

BEST FOOD EVER

I don't even know. Me and Nicki have been eating allll day since we haven't had any sleep and we just ate at this rinky dinky little place and it was sooooo good. Yummmm.

I do not like dead pigs. Or stray dogs.

I do not like to see pig heads as I am picking out llama themed sweaters for my nephews. But it's OK. I guess.

I haven't slept since...Saturday from 12-3:45 a.m. Sunday morning. I've dozed with my head squeezed onto the tray table on the plane 'cause the lady in front of me moved her seat back and I caaaan't sleep with my head lolling back; I don't see how people do that. Actually, the flight attendant smashed my head with the food tray and laughed. I was really confused about what was funny. Maybe my face. Oh well. I was too tired to care, and that was about 6 p.m. Sunday on my 4th flight.

Now, I've been on flight number 5, I'm in thin air at 11,000 feet, and I've managed to doze for about 3 different 15-minute intervals on various pillows scattered throughout the hostel. Nicki slept a whole HOUR. So jealous!

But I plan to sleep tonight. I'm pretty excited. Oh sleep! We're actually going to Pisac tomorrow because that's when the market is and ahhh! I loooove markets! I also love coca tea. Coca tea is tea made with leaves that make cocaine. Butttt it's no cocaine. I don't get it. All I know is they make you drink it to help with altitude sickness and it tastes like mild green tea.

OK, I am posting random pics now.










Can I talk about how nice the hostel is? It's super nice. Fluffy beds!

Newark rocks.

I am in Newark, New Jersey. FOR SRS. THIS IS SO COOL.

Actually. Newark and I had a falling out last December when it kept putting me on standby and I spent allll day in the airport. And I don't like its bathrooms.

But here is a pic of my Coke since I am bored.



And why does Dad have his netbook IE resolution at 105%? Getting old, Daddio?



And I loooove my Birkenstocks.

Off to Peruuu

So I am sitting at the airport, waiting to begin a looong day of plane rides. Well. Not really "waiting to begin," since I've been up since 3:45, so I guess it began 2 hours and 50 minutes ago. But waiting to start flying. I figured this was a good time to start my Peru blog. This trip won't be as long as my Euro Trip 2008, but it should be pretty spectacular...once I get out of the country, anyway...

I should be in Lima by 11:15 tonight. I'll meet Nicki at the airport and hope her Spanish saves me...though I do know enough to be polite! Buenos dias! Gracias! Como estas? Dondes esta! Amazing, for sure.

Then tomorrow morning we catch a 5:50 a.m. flight to Cusco, then we'll take a bus to the Sacred Valley and check out Pisac and Ollytaytambo (I probably spelled that wrong...I am too lazy to Google), then spend the night in Agua Calientes, then off to Machu Picchu! Here's hoping my body can handle the Andes and I don't get altitude sick. Speaking of, I should check out altitude sickness prevention. Should be interesting.

Anyway. That is all for now. I would like to thank my father for letting me borrow his netbook so I don't have to type all this on my iPod. Rock on, Dad! And Mom for making me coffee this a.m. since I am running on 3 hours of sleep. Wooooo!

Also, I am curious about my logic when I booked a window seat to Miami, then an aisle seat to Lima. Ummm...wha? I guess 'cause I figured it'd be dark on the way to Lima? Which is not really true...since I leave Miami at 6:45. Amyfail.

Au revoir!

Peru!

Am going to Peru with my friend Nicki in July. STAY TUNED.