Trujillo adventure.....And the work begins today.

Well, Trujillo was a long day. We left at 6:00 am and got back at 8:30 PM. It was my first time to drive that far here in Peru, and drive in the crazy traffic in Trujillo. I know that I was no where near as relaxed as my dad was when he made the trip there and Maribel and Mari Ester can attest to that. I told them no singing or yelling while we were in Trujillo so that I could concentrate.

3 girls had to go to the doctors, so we dropped them off there and took 2 others to the dentist. After that we went and picked up some engineering plans that we had to have for some inspections to get certified. We then went to a market where I was able to buy my huge carpet and bathroom mats...now that I put them down I could really use another 2 or 3 mats for the bathroom, they weren't as big as I thought. We then went to a window shop where we bought some plexi glass 26 windows. I knew we were in for a long wait when after an hour and a half they had cut 5. We decided to come back another day for the 8 we didn't get.

The drive home was the adventerous part. It was late and very dark and there are no lights out in the middle of nowhere. Between 2 cities Trujillo and Paijan, I hit a big pile of wood and metal that was in the middle of the road. At first I thought I had blow the tires but they weren't. I was getting ready to pull over out in the middle of nowhere to check out what the heck I was dragging behind the car. I thought it was our bumper or muffler in the back. But as I started slowing down Maribel and Mari Ester told me not to. I found out that people put that stuff there as a trap. And when people run over it and pop a tire then pull over to fix it, they come up and rob them. I then had my eyes open for more of these traps and dodged another 2 before we got to the next city with a gas station. At the gas station I jumped out of the car to see what it was we were dragging and it was the spare tire holder. Whatever I had run over had knocked the spare tire holder out of place. All I had to do was pop it back into position and all was good. No damage to the car or anything. I really don't want to drive back from Trujillo in the dark again.

So today I had planned on finally cleaning my house... and I still plan too. It's only 1:00 right now, so there might be a chance. After I swept and mopped about 1/5th of my house I got a phone call and they needed to talk to me over in the school office. So.... while I was over there I had an impromptu meeting with our lawyer about a legal case we have going on right now, found out that the guards/janitors aren't showing up at night, that someone is trying to build a house on our property, we needed more ink for a printer that you can only get from the states, and that we need more tools over at the school.

I decided I really need a big schedualer/note taking book.

Sorry that this post lacked pictures and details, but I gotta get going.