First off they use a crazy keyboard which is just close enough to the us keyboard that it really screws you up when you try and get a few keys. Also they use shift and also an alt key to make @ so it is a hassle.
Anyway, Megan, Julie and Jake and I all meet up at our house at 6 am friday to car pool to san bruno bart. Megan and I are slow and we finally leave at 6:20 which still gives us plenty of time to make it to the airport. After an uneventful flight to LAX, we then transfer to the international terminal where we have a few hours to kill. I thought the terminal was promising at first with a big food court over the checkin/security area. Once we went through security though, the only food to get was hot dogs or sandwiches. You´d think for a gigantic airport they would be slightly better.
We get onto our 767 which turns out to have personal tvs. I effing love those it makes long flights so much better to pause and watch what you want when you want. they also had some fun games. Megan and I boozed it up and started buzzing with our first meal and then attempted to watch iron man until we passed out. We woke up a few hours later and turns out that the personal tv system was crapping out and would kick us out of the movie. after we got it reset, we watched some more of it before it crapped out again. We took a few laps on the plane and visited with jake and julie and then finally finished off iron man. megan went back to sleep and i watched some heist film all the way to about 15 minutes till the end before they turned them off for landing. I´ll finish it on the way back.
We got into the lima airport and get our bags and recheck them to go to cusco. we had a 7 hour layover from midnight to 7 in the morning so we haed a ton of time to kill. we were then excited for some crazy peruvian food. Turn out their food court had starbucks, mcdonalds, papa johns pizza, and dunkin donuts. Good thing we just left america. I butchered some spanish talking to the person ordering food while jake got a burger at mcds. We ate that and it was around 1 am I think. We paid the airport fee (it isnt rolled into the ticket like in america) and then found an empty gate to sleep at. what i was super psyched about was that whereas in america almost every seat has arms to it, this one had 3 in a row with no arms. we could stretch out and actually sleep horizontal on the seats. woot! i´ve got pictures to come once i get home.
We then get woken up at 5 am by one of the employees who tells us that the area is closed (maybe thati s why it was so empty) we slowly relocate to another area with the sweet seats and i pass out. megan stayed up and updated her journal. then finally they showed what gate our flight was at and we move there. By then it was about 7 and our flight left in 45 minutes. I couldn´t go back to sleep so we just pack up and wait. It was really deserted and i was excited about getting our own rows. then about 5 min before boarding about 100 people come in (must have been a connecting flight) and the airport is packed. we finally board the plane for the house flight over to cusco.I passed out again until while I´m sleeping I wake up to megan freaking out. The flight attendant had just spilled boiling tea down her leg and it was scalding her. There wasn´t much she could do at that point but suck it up and be a trooper (which she was. she hasn´t complained about it once) At that point I open our window and look out a few thousand feet below us where there are tons of mountains on the right side. apparently the left side was way more impressive, but what can you do. we got in and got our bags in about a minute. it was very evident that we weren´t in america anymore. ill opst an airport picture later.
We then waited for jake´s dad to show up which he did in an hour. he showed up and pointed out that there were people with name cards with our names on them. we go and talk to them and turns out our hotel is awesome and has arranged for a person to get us to the hotel from the airport. then we figured since megan´s brother mark was coming in twenty minutes we should just wait for him. so we did. we then meet up with him and his friend adam.
we all jumped in a huge bus that i should have taken a picture of where they throw all our gear on top. we get to the hotel and unload and meet up with tom. everyone takes some time to shower and then we meet up and go to the peru treks office to pay our balance for the upcoming trek. turns out we hit them right at their lunch time so we go to this amazing lunch place looking over this piazza (or whatever they call it in peru). i ate alpacca, some chinese peruvian fusion beef, some trout. Basically we had 10 people and everyone sampled a little ofe veryones. we also got this pisca sour which is basically a margarita but the people love it here. it was good. we also got a 650 ml of beer for 8.5 soles which is like 3 american. BOOYAH. turns out then that i was a little buzzed cause we are at 10k elevation. we head back to the hotel and i pass out. more to come later
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