First whole day Peru - Air to Water

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FRIDAY, MARCH 13 - from Jill McCumby

 

Our team of Rita, Dale and I would leave from KS, MO and MI and head out on Peru, meeting up with Randa who had flown in on a different flight.  After 14 hrs later we would join Georgia and Linda at the Hotel San Miguel.

The  next day to relax and get our bearings to what would be very busy week, working with the children, we would go on a boat excursión to 2 islands, learning about the history of  Peru and a naval base.  The bond on the boat reminded you how easy it is to be with strangers who did not speak the language, because by the time we got off the boat, we had non verbal conversation with the locals, shared food and laugh, shared their children and took pictures of each other. We  saw birds, penguns and sea lions and…we were invited to swim with the sea lions!!!  They had wetsuits  or we could just jump in.  I chose to just jump in..the South Pacific Ocean baby!!!  The Peruvians were so kind, they took pics or everyone, we shared a picnic lunch proviced by the travel agents;  chicken salad sándwiches and pear juice.  The staff passed away drink of banana chips and colas.

We returned exhaustd and sunburned but it was a nice reprieve to a long airplane ride and we were all so impressed with the difference in quality of customer service in Peru.  After a long nap of 2 hrs, we would have dinner, and get some exercise by walking to the grocery store, always a really fun place to see the Peruvian groceries, eggs that don’t have to be refrigerated,  and different produce. An ice cream cone was in order by all, and that was even different..I tried Lucina, a fruit flavor that was peach in color. 

Devotions:  We talked about our day, learned about a weaving prayer from Georgia, where you wrap yarn around a frame and weave prayers in and out them, and picked a prayer of another person to pray for all week.  We arrived to our hotel room with thank you notes with Bible verses from Dale’s church. Thankful for 2 people flutent, 2 pastors, a new person (always fun to see them immerse into a misión trip) and a team of 6 that would change the lives of children in wheelchairs, and this was just day one…..