Off to Arequipa!

So my Tuesday did not end until 5am this morning, which is why I'm leaving you all with a rather short update before I leave for our trip to Arequipa tonight. That'll be a 12 hour bus ride for us tonight, which I can't say I'm looking forward to. But it'll be totally worth it just to knock another city out. Arequipa is the second largest city in Peru, and I've heard nothing bad about it at all. Good food, beautiful place, great weather seems to be the consensus. Of course, we're doing this in true backpacking fashion and going there without prebooking a hostel. So wish us luck!

Anyways, here are some notable points of yesterday (Tuesday).


- Bought tickets with the boys and Marco in the morning
- Didn't grab breakfast before we went to buy our bus tickets, so I went back home to eat breakfast with Luke.
- I watched Happy Feet in Spanish
- Read some Harry Potter on my balcony
- For lunch, we had fried fish, which was delicious! Of course, I doused it in ketchup, but what's new there?
- After lunch, I went to class, where I had milk accidentally spilt on me as I bought some ChocoSoda crackers. Jorge helped me out and told me to just take off the shirt and wear my sweatshirt instead, which had managed to stay dry.I had to go to the bathroom to wash out the milk and dried it off with the handblower.
- After class, I went to the post office to finally send out all of the postcards and my ballot, which cost 115 soles!!! That's about 39 dollars! International mailing is a crazy business.
- Next, I went to the gym to work out for a half hour, and then to Real McCoy's to make a reservation for pub quiz.
- When I got home, Liz and I got ready for our night out. We decided that tonight we would go all out and get dressed up, so we wore our we wore our nicest tops, skirt for her and skinny jeans for me, and I threw on my 4 inch heels. We then waited for dinner, which came awfully late, and therefore, we got to pub quiz a round late. Because of this, the quiz girl read us the questions really quickly so as to not hold up the game, which we answered in a minute more or less, thus giving us the team name, "One Minute Men". You can believe she laughed everytime she said our name.
- We came in 4th during pub quiz, which was still a pretty respectable finish. We weren't too bummed anyways, knowing that we were going out afterwards.
- Ultimately, we danced the night away, and ended up back home at 5. It was a great night though, despite the fact that my heels killed so badly by the end of the night. It wasn't too badly though, as the boys took turns giving me piggy back rides. =)

Well, it's off to dinner now, and then the bus station, so I'll repost to you all on Monday when I return. Until then, miss you all and take care! xxoo