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!