Bday Party in Peru

Dear Mom and Dad,

We are spending two more nights here and then moving on to Trujillo. We are taking a bus that departs at 11:00pm at night in order to arrive in the morning. Charlie and I will be damned if anyone tries to take anythign this time. We need to get to Cusco and soon! I'm exicted to see Machu Picchu not so excited to leave the beach.

I think Charlie enjoyed his birthday here. We went out for lunch and dinner for his bday. Here are two of our dishes from lunch. I had a chicken and veggie dish, and Charlie had some shrimp curry spicy noodley dish. We ate at a "Chinese" restaurant. There are no pictures from our sushi dinner because the food was soooo delicious that we didn't even think about taking photos until we inhaled everything! The chef even gave Charlie four free Nigiri's of tuna. I'm not sure exactly what they were called, but it's raw tuna with white rice underneath. He overheard us talking and knew Charlie was craving a little. We did however get a picture of the sign to get to the sushi place because I wasn't confident enough to remember the name, and we thought we would show the taxi driver the picture, so he would know where to take us. The camara died on the spot of trying to show the driver. Oh well, we got there!

This next picture is of us riding in the taxi to the sushi place. 4 km is a LONG ways in the dark on a dirt road. I was a little scared to be going there soooo late, but it was totally worth it!

 The next series of pictures are of Charlie and I going out for his bday. We thought we were sooo cool wearing our alpaca hats in Peru. I think that was alcohol induced. We bought four beers at a restuarant for $3.75. The second we bought them and they brought them out, they shut all the doors and turned off the lights to hint that we needed to get out. Why sell us beer if you don't want to stay for us to drink them? You know what we did? Sat there and drank them of course. The last picture you can see the doors closed with a little opening for us to leave. Please, as if turning the lights off was going to stop this bday celebration....

Maybe we were a tidbit obnoxious with the pictures, but they were obnoxious to shut the doors and turn the lights off before we could even finish a beer...let alone four. We it's time to celebrate with another bday party for Charlie! He did some surfing today and is a littl bit sore. I would have pictures, but the camara is crapping out on us. I'll have to use mine tomorrow, but the flash isn't working on that one. One way or another...there will be pictures of Charlie surfing by the end of the trip.

Love and miss you all,

Matti and Charlie