Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Crepes & Waffle Wednesday

Today was a wild day starting bright and early at 4:00am. We had our taxis set to pick us up from our hotel and bring us to the airport at 5:00am. We were the first flight to leave the airport, at gate 1. Check in and security were a breeze and we were at our gate with time to spare (a nice change). We all sat in row 8 on the plane.


We landed in Lima around 8:30am. Unfortunately, our arranged taxi was nowhere to be found, luckily a very nice taxi driver got a van for cheaper! We made it to our hotel, however check in wasn't until 1:00
so we had some time to burn.

Lorna led us to an amazing restaurant she remembers from her previous visits named "Crepes and Waffles". We all ordered amazing breakfasts which were much needed after an already long day of travel.


After finishing our amazing crepes we walked down to the ocean and Larcomar, a giant American-style shopping center on the ocean.


After a quick stop at Starbucks to keep us all from falling asleep in the middle of the sidewalk, it was time to go back to our hotel, check in and get ready for our 3:30 meeting. We were invited to attend a meeting with 4 ILEP (Iglesia Lutherana Evangelica de Peru) pastors. 

We had a little bit of an adventure on our way to the meeting. Lorna, Deb and I all were in a cab. The cab driver took off before Ofelia told us where the meeting was located. He said he knew where it was. However, after we drove around endlessly it was clear that he in fact did not know where it was. By an act of God, we somehow made it to the correct street. I heard Ofelia say that we needed to go to the 10th block, and the driver let us out at an intersection and pointed to the right. We walked to the right and ended up being stopped by a security guard. I told him we were looking for the tenth block and all he could tell me was that we were in a restricted government area and needed to walk in the other direction. Well, that set us on our way the other direction, and ten blocks later we finally spotted Pastor Dale at the intersection looking for our taxi. Reunited at last and very relieved, we went into our meeting.

The meeting lasted a little over 2 hours and we talked mostly about ILEP, the congregations, and our relationship into the future with the churches and children of Peru. It was great to see the pastors again and meet some new ones too.

After our meeting, we had a hectic taxi ride in rush hour back to our hotel. We decided that we better take one taxi this time to avoid the same adventure as before. However, this meant a very crowded back seat.
Trust me, we look a lot happier in this picture than we actually were.

After returning to our hotel we took a short break and decided to go out for pizza. The pizza was super delicious. We ordered a pizza that was similar to a Hawaiin pizza, but it had fresh peaches on it! So good!

After dinner we took a short walk around the park, then back to our hotel. Although only 8:00pm it seems like midnight because we have been awake for so long! Plus, we have to be ready to go at 9:00am tomorrow to head to Emmanuel to do a short morning kindergarten music workshop with the kids.

^insert plug about being exhausted but excited for tomrorow,

Ben Beyond the Bubble

 










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