made it to Lima

monday morning 6am sharp emily and i caught a taxi to the vancouver airport. i started regretting that i hadn´t paid the extra money to go on emily´s flight with her. i surprised myself by managing to sleep uncomfortably most of the way to houston texas. my houston to lima seat wasn´t so great. i had an extremely large lady sitting behind me and she constantly used my chair to pull herself up. it was so annoying. i watched mr and mrs smith. such a bad movie. when i arrived in the lima airport, an emergency was sounding and lights flashing. i couldn´t understand the annoucement just attentione attentione....i was in a line for the customs agent and the guy in front of me and i couldn´t decide if we should run for the nearest stairwell or not. no one else was paying attention to it. so we stayed in line and 15 min later it stopped. i was a little freaked out. not a good intro to the country. since my backpack had been checked at the very last minute due to there being no room in the overhead compartments i had to pick it up from the baggage carousel. i hadn´t had a chance to tie all the straps up and when i went to reach it my bag was stuck to the conveyor belt by a strap. no one offered to help me as i struggled with it. i managed to pry it off. next was finding the hostel taxi guy. there were so many people with signs. right when i was about to give up and look for a phone to call the hostel someone called my name out. i turned and there was a guy with a sign saying Point Lodge Nicole. it was so cool. lima is pretty cold. i was freazing last night in my mouldy dorm room. i woke up several times with a pounding headache. then at about 830 emily showed up. we´ve moved into a room for 4 but so far we have it to ourselves. sweet. emily made a friend at the airport and had taken a taxi with two girls one from Lima. tonight we will try to meet them for dinner. tomorrow we will start heading to Cusco and probably meet up with them again. it´s good to go places with locals :)