Trip to Lima

We traveled to Lima on Tuesday to start our paperwork for residence visas. We flew from Arequipa on Tuesday morning at 7:20 and landed in Lima at 8:45 AM. There is a church in Lima that has set up an agency to help missionaries in the country. We were helped by a lady named Maritza. She took us to immigration and Interpol to turn in all of our paperwork. We had to sign a release for the FBI to give our information to Peru's Interpol agency. Rodney & I also had to have our teeth checked, and our fingers printed.

We had bus tickets for 9:10 PM Tuesday night. After our paperwork was finished, we spent the afternoon at Jockey Plaza, the Lima mall. We ate at LongHorns. The menu was in Spanish, so we weren't sure what to order. We knew that pollo was chicken, so we had pollo and papa fritas or french fries. It was really good!

The picture above is of Josie on the bus. We had a 14 hour bus ride back to Arequipa. We decided to take a bus to save money. We took a bus with 180 degree reclining seats. Because we were traveling through the night, we slept for a good portion of the trip. The road from Lima to Arequipa took us down the Pacific coastline. I was surprised at how rural the coastline is. There were no commerical buildings. It was really pretty. There were huge rocks and cliffs all along the coast. The road was right between desert on one side and the Pacific Ocean on the other. It was an amazing sight.