The Weekend of Waiting

Sorry no update last night.  We went on a tour of Lima and to the catacombs yesterday and my sun to water intake turned up insufficient.  So I just needed to sleep away the headache after consuming more water.  I am going to try and upload a few pictures to share.  The wifi here just isn't fast enough for images sometimes.

Ben's pineapple juice, just for you Tarsh, its a tiny pitcher

My fruit bowl.  YUMMY!!!

Paintings in Parque Kennedy, Miraflores

Street entertainers juggling and doing flip over one another for money

 The tour was suppose to be bilingual.  Our guide shared alot of information in Spanish and a tiny bit in Spanglish.  Its ok, I enjoyed the sightseeing and got the general idea.

This is Lima....  driving in Boston is courteous in comparison.  The picture only minimally captures the significance of the housing stacked into this mountain community.

I love this.  No horns in the presidential district.  Horns are a regular part of driving here.  I have started to identify the variations in beeps and it doesn't require me to turn my head.  Thus far, there is the taxi beep every 10 seconds, "do you want a ride? Then the I am coming,  don't move.  The get out of my way I don't want to wait for traffic or people crossing the street.  Hey wait its my turn, you stop.  Stay tuned, the days in Peru have just begun, perhaps I will share more.

Waiting & Wondering

As we wait and update paperwork some have of asked, "how do you do it?" well I often read other adoption blogs, I particularly LOVE the ones that have or are adopting from PERU. I find everything I can on Peru and I research all the orphanages or children's homes.  I look at thousands of pictures like these and wonder, "are my daughter(s) in this photo?

My decision to blog was inspired by my new friend Paige.  As I went from one blog to the next I stumbled onto her blog.  I was so excited.  I followed her blog for a couple of weeks to "check her out," Then one day following a visit from her parents, she posted about her dad two complaints with her blog and I agreed with one, she didn't post enough!  That was my que.... write to her. We have alot of similarities, it is great to have another waiting mommy with the same agency, in the same country, in the same agency.  We are hopeful that we will be in country at the same time, highly unlikely, but we like to think and talk about it.  Who says you are ever to old to pretend?