I have kept myself busy with Maine and catching up on my tv...that I forgot that I should probably do this before it all escapes my memory.
So here we go!
Saturday 02/07/11
I picked Susie up from the airport on Saturday morning bright and early! I was looking classy after a whole night without sleep, well we both were because Susie didn't get *much* sleep on the airplane...so Saturday we were both in a delerious state...which you will come to find out we were like that the majority of the trip. We named this state "not being in HD". like a tv, to work great and be on top of everything...you gotta be in HD which we were not the majority of the time. Let me tell you traveling with Susie and my brains...we were probably in HD maybe 7% of the time. There were multiple times that we left items somewhere, lost items *like my travel pillow on the very first bus of the trip for me*, locking keys in the room, etc...
So I met Susie at the airport and I was able to look out over all the people going through customs and i caught her eye through the window. *i had not even realized at this point that i left my travel pillow on the bus.. i was too tired*. After Susie breezed through customs we headed to the bus, metro, and finally arrived at our hostel. Our plan: relax and view the town a little bit.
I had only been to Santiago a few times on ISA trips...so finding my way around was quite an adventure. We were "lost" staring at our maps and almost forgot to look up, and then we found this.
pictures never do it justice...but this amazing building with the mountains in the background...
stupid haze. Santiago pollution is real bad...
then we climbed a hill to get a look out over the city. and we found these statues
haha oh susie.
and here was the view!
i adjusted the picture a little bit...but you get the idea of the smog.
and then we finally got a good nights rest in a real bed!
and there is susie in her cocoon! this is the goof i had to travel with! jk, it was wonderful :)
Sunday 03/07/11
We didn't sleep long though! Because we had such an early flight...our taxi picked us up from the hostel at 3:20am! yea, it was a joke. they pick you up 3 hours before your flight wether you want them to or not! Good thing though, because the airport was pretty busy once we got there.
We had to fly through Lima to get to Cuzco. But things got a little bit crazy at the Lima airport.
We were a little bit confused as to wether we had to get our luggage once we landed in Lima. At first we were told yes we had to, so we waited at baggage claim...and never saw our luggage. My cell phone clock at this time said we had about 30 minutes until our plane left. Frantic we talked to people at the desk and they told us to look again. Both of our bags were bright blue, and we could see from the desk that our bags were not there...luckily they took care of it and said that our bags would be transfered and that we should continue through customs for Peru. That went super quick, and we were about to go through security again with 10 minutes to spare til our flight and they stopped us saying that we had not paid the airport fee. We had no idea about this, and thought that it would have been covered in our ticket purchase. The security guard was telling us that we could either go back downstairs to the Taca counter *name of airline was Taca* or pay at the window right there. With little time to spare we paid in USD our airport fee and went through security. Some how my suede boots made the metal detector go off, so i had to take them off, and after passing through, we were running and I was carrying my boots in my hand. It would have taken too much time to put them back on again. As we were running to our gate we saw so many food places that we wanted to get food from, but decided that we would miss our plane, and we were not going to let that happen.
We get down to our gate and frantically ask if people are going to Cuzco, they responded yep, and we thought ok sweet, now why isn't our plane here yet! After 20-30 minutes of waiting we were getting quite annoyed at the airline. They should have at least told us that our plane was going to be delayed so that we could go get food!
then HD bulbs lit up....TIME CHANGE. duh... My time was still on Chile time, and Peru was an hour behind... SO my phone said that our plane should have already left, but we were early and had plenty of time. WHO KNEW. took us a while to figure that one out.
We finally got on our plane and had a quick trip over to Cuzco. When we got there it was drizzling and the sky was all clouds! We walked around the city a little bit, but mostly stayed in the hostel to rest and acclimatize to the altitude.
Here a few pictures we took that first day.
cloudy, rainy, Cuzco, Plaza de Armas
statue they had in the middle of the plaza.
There wasn't much excitement that Sunday, mostly huffing and puffing around the city trying to see some stuff...that didn't really work out because we were tired. So we got some stuff at the grocery store and headed back to the hostel real quick. Our dinner, Peanut butter and Jelly! ...that happened a lot.
So that was the end of Cuzco day 1.
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