Home (closer this time)
I survived my flights and now am in Seattle, WA once again. Sunday night I will be back in Wenatchee... my real home, but anywhere with a bed and shower works for me!
Wednesday night in Mexico City was an ordeal. We arrived at 6 PM and spent the next six hours haggling with various airlines to get a flight that night into LA or a hotel for the night. I do not want to go into details, it was agravating and in Spanish. Finally we made it to a free hotel, courtesy of LanPeru, at 1 AM. They told us that our meal vouchers were only good in their restaurant, which was closed, and not for room service. Cammie then had a stellar performance (partly acting, partly truth) and convinced them to give us free room service since we were so pitifully hungry. I tried to help but was having a hard enough time trying not to laugh at Cammie to say much. We ended up getting free dinners of spicy chicken mole, Mexican hot chocolate and dessert (flan for me, chocolate cake for Cammie). After eating cheaply for an entire month, high quality food tasted so good. I do not usually like flan, but I thought I would try it since I was in Mexico and if there was good flan anywhere it would probably be there. We enjoyed our short stay in luxury and four hours of sleep before returning to the airport at 7 (actually 7:30 because we had a taxi fiasco, again, unpleasant) to fly to LAX.
Once in LAX we took awhile to adjust to the high cost of everything, called Cammie's friend, Jamie ($ 0.50 for a phone cal!?), and had her pick us up and take us to her apartment. Finally we got to relax in somewhere familiar, shower and change clothes. We went to Trader Joe's and bought lots and lots of VEGETABLES (what could be more exciting?) and made stirfry and strawberry spinach salad for dinner. After a month of avoiding most vegetable for fear of getting sick this was the high point of the day. We also had chocolate chip cookies and ice cream for dessert, since there were no chocolate chip cookies in Peru.
Now I am in Seattle, still a little surprised that everyone speaks English and still translating things between English and Spanish in my head. Coming up next I have the GRE general test next weekend and then a cross country drive to Wisconsin to meet up with the rest of the CXC Ski Team.
Wednesday night in Mexico City was an ordeal. We arrived at 6 PM and spent the next six hours haggling with various airlines to get a flight that night into LA or a hotel for the night. I do not want to go into details, it was agravating and in Spanish. Finally we made it to a free hotel, courtesy of LanPeru, at 1 AM. They told us that our meal vouchers were only good in their restaurant, which was closed, and not for room service. Cammie then had a stellar performance (partly acting, partly truth) and convinced them to give us free room service since we were so pitifully hungry. I tried to help but was having a hard enough time trying not to laugh at Cammie to say much. We ended up getting free dinners of spicy chicken mole, Mexican hot chocolate and dessert (flan for me, chocolate cake for Cammie). After eating cheaply for an entire month, high quality food tasted so good. I do not usually like flan, but I thought I would try it since I was in Mexico and if there was good flan anywhere it would probably be there. We enjoyed our short stay in luxury and four hours of sleep before returning to the airport at 7 (actually 7:30 because we had a taxi fiasco, again, unpleasant) to fly to LAX.
Once in LAX we took awhile to adjust to the high cost of everything, called Cammie's friend, Jamie ($ 0.50 for a phone cal!?), and had her pick us up and take us to her apartment. Finally we got to relax in somewhere familiar, shower and change clothes. We went to Trader Joe's and bought lots and lots of VEGETABLES (what could be more exciting?) and made stirfry and strawberry spinach salad for dinner. After a month of avoiding most vegetable for fear of getting sick this was the high point of the day. We also had chocolate chip cookies and ice cream for dessert, since there were no chocolate chip cookies in Peru.
Now I am in Seattle, still a little surprised that everyone speaks English and still translating things between English and Spanish in my head. Coming up next I have the GRE general test next weekend and then a cross country drive to Wisconsin to meet up with the rest of the CXC Ski Team.
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