Welcome to Lima

Drama is on display in Airports. People leaving for long journeys. Or arriving home weary after long journeys to the familiar sights of their city. It is also the place of joyous reunions and sad departures. In an 8 day span airports would hold both of those things for me.

While Drama is on display in Airports, it isn't made in airports. The drama of airports is made in the weeks and months before the actual happening in airport. And that is what the airport held for me three weeks ago, the realization of things waited for.

So three weeks ago, Jess came to visit me in Peru! I flew in to Lima to meet her and arrived an hour and a half before her flight arrived. I spent a terrible (and extremely long) hour waiting in the Lima Airport food court for her flight to arrive. Thankfully when her flight did arrive she had an easy time picking up her bags and clearing customs!

(insert making a scene in front of total strangers)

After that we just hung out in the airport for a little while, and then our friend Michael picked us up at the airport and brought us to their new apartment in Lima. Michael, Laura and Noah are friends of Jess's from college and mine from language school. So it was great to see them and their new place in Lima where they will be doing ministry. Another friend from language school, David, was also in Lima and also staying with Michael and Laura. So we had a late dinner and stayed up for a little while catching up.

The next day was Sunday so we went to Church with the Salvatierras where they will be serving and had a good time worshiping together. After church and lunch David had to catch his flight back to language school and the Salvatierras had a membership class. So Jess and I went down to the cliffs along the ocean. From there we walked to Larcomar which is a huge mall built into the cliffs overlooking the ocean in a nice section of Lima. After their class, Michael, Laura and Noah met us for dinner at Larcomar. And then it was back to their flat to hang out and watch the office (they are just getting into it!)

The next morning we were off to Arequipa! After a great time in Lima catching up with our friends!

ACC Champs

I should post about my great week with Jess but I don't have enough speed here to post pictures and I'm headed to Arequipa next to pick up my parents so I will do it then!

So to the issue at hand; the hokies! What a season, they have played so well the last 5 games totally dominating every team in their path on the way to redemption against Boston College in the ACC Championship game. I think it is fitting that at the end of this game instead of having Matt Ryan lead a comeback he widened the gap. 2 picks instead of 2 touchdowns. A interception for a touchdown to turn the game into a 14 point win instead of a 14 point comeback.

That loss to Boston College still stings, a lot. It was the only game this whole year that I was able to watch live. Only the second game I've watched without knowing the outcome (I watched a DVD of the ECU game after coming out of the jungle). And that was tough to watch. But getting a second chance at them was great. And finishing them off in this manner was even better! To take from them their dream of a BCS bowl and to send them to the Champs Sports bowl and invalidating their season at the same time is sweet revenge. Another season with over 10 wins, how great is Beamer, the only thing that is missing from this season for me has been not being able to attend or watch the games! And celebrate with my fellow Hokies. But it has been good watching from afar! I can't wait to see the bowl game!

GO HOKIES!

-Seth