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.<\/p>\n
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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s right, Chris got Aviva addicted over our honeymoon).<\/p>\n
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\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6it 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!<\/p>\n
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