Nasca lines

This last weekend the girls and I travelled to see the famous Nasca lines in Nasca Peru. We left after a long week of work and school and all of us passed out on the bus. I had a double seat to myself up until Ica (4 hours in) and then as I was in the back talking I noticed a lady trying to see if my seat was hers. I told her the number and she asked if I could move to let her husband sit with her and I didn't mind so I did. This also happened on the way home from Paracas except the guy wanted to sit with his girlfriend and his ticket was for the VIP downstairs so of course I was comfortable and had my own tv with selection of movies. :) 

Besides this bus trip our adventure got started as soon as we got to Nasca. My name was being shouted by a Peruvian man, our hostel guy, and we took two vehicles the 4 or so blocks to our lodging. We got there booked our tour for the next day and headed to bed. We reserved a triple and a double for ourselves and I was in the triple with Alice and Julia. Our room smelled like pea and chlorine bleach mixted together and we found ants on the floor. This wasn't all bad. We shut the bathroom door and laughed about the bugs, smell and the damn annoying roosters crowing all night. Seriously all night (must have been  be blind)! We woke up in the morning I took the one towel that was supposed to be provided for all and got in the Hot shower!! As I got out we got a knock on our door and it was Dani who stayed with Colby in the double room. She came in not happy and we would shortly find out why. Besides no sleep and girl problems she goes, "Guess who the f*** got bed bugs last night?!" Huge gasp from us all. 

This was the one she got a picture of and as soon as she felt the bite she went to turn the lights on, after telling her roommate, and they both saw about 20 or more under the sheets. They checked Colby's bed and only found 1. They both took scalding hot showers put their clothes in plastic bags and slept in the fetal position on top of the blanket on Colby's bed. When we found that out we were surprised that they didn't come to our room. By the am the smell was gone and the ants were harmless, compared to their experience. 

Dani went to the reception twice in the night and no one was there and in the morning we got ready as fast as we could and headed down to talk to them. As we met the lady on the stairs we mentioned it to her and immediately she said it was a bug that lived in the plants and didn't bite. After Dani tried to show her bugs that live in the dark during daylight she continued to not believe us. The hostel price was cheap enough that we weren't worried about being able to afford it or not. After about an hour, multiple phone calls, arrival of another worker, angry Spanish conversations between us all the girls did not pay for their bed and we headed out for breakfast. I did later write a review for the hostel and I think we would have felt better if they would have started it off with, "I'm sorry for the inconvenience lets work this out," or something similar. When we got to Paracas the picture shows what Dani now has on her body. Anti-itch cream to the rescue. 

Despite the adventure in the hostel we did get to see the Nasca lines, Palpa lines and the museum of Marie Reiche. 

The desert was awesome, warm and had fresh air that was a relief from being in the city. Overall the trip was good and I'm glad we went. 

Today in class I taught the verb to have and reviewed with my kids and it went very well. I also sang the Peel bananas song (peel bananas peel peel bananas, etc). I almost forgot but did share a bit of our history with the kids and sang the Star-Spangled Banner for them and they sang their national hymn for me too, so cute!! Too bad I forgot to record it or anything! :(

Time's winding down and I booked my trek and now tomorrow I'll book my bus ticket to Cusco!! Happy 4th to everyone, will write Saturday for sure to recap our 4th of July party!

Chau chau

P.s we didn't!! Didn't bring any bugs back with us!