La Luna de Miel Larga

We have finally found a bit of time to work on our website. While this used to be just our wedding website, we decided to make it more multi-purpose and use it as a type of blog for our time in Peru too. You can still connect to the wedding part of the site (where there are links to photos!), and we have also added a section on our honeymoon in Paris and parts of Turkey.

As far as settling into Peru goes, we arrived in Lima on October 17th, without our luggage (as expected, since we had sent it to connect between different airlines and without a complete list of stop-over and flight connections). Luckily it arrived later the next day so we had clean clothes to wear to our embassy security briefing. We arrived in Cusco on Saturday, October 20th, and spent the weekend adjusting to the altitude. We are at 12,000 feet/3,000 meters, and the headaches seemed to last longer into the weekend than Aviva remembers from past trips. We started Spanish classes on the Monday, and have been spending our time since then looking for a place to live, meeting new people and doing some volunteering, buying things like hangers and slippers, and watching episodes of Lost (that’s right, Chris got Aviva addicted over our honeymoon).

On the place to live front, we found a place that we like (close to the center, roomy and with nice sun, fully furnished also with kitchen stuff so we have very little to actually buy, even has an oven and a fridge), but…it is not available until December. So we are now renting a much smaller bachelor-type place, which will suffice until we can get into the bigger place in December. We have really enjoyed living with our host family (same one that Aviva has lived with in 2005 and 2006), but it is also nice to have our own space and be closer to the center. No address to speak of yet, but we both now have our cell phones set up (so email us if you want the numbers!). Of course email and skype are the best ways to communicate with us, so we hope to hear from you soon!

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1. Carol Says:
   November 12th, 2007 at 11:32 am

   Love the blog! We were introduced to the format when Jesse was in Japan last month – he and his friends posted almost every day when they were away – a great way to keep up.

   Your honeymoon trip looked great – how lucky are you guys! We just got back from a 10 day trip to Paris ourselves. We went to help a friend celebrate a big birthday. We had an apartment in the Marais (the 4th arrondissment), which is our favorite neighborhood.
   Did you see the new Branly Museum? We went over on a Sunday and there was such a long line to get in that we just walked around the building, which is supposed to be the main attraction. I guess we’ll save seeing the collection for next time.

   Now that we’re back home, Thanksgiving is paramount on my mind. Harriett arrives on Sunday and Alex and Rebecca are coming up on the Wednesday before, so I’ll have my whole family this year. We’ll miss you both, but will save your seats for when you return.

   Thanks for putting me on your list. I’ll forward the link to Tony.

   Love,
   Carol