Arequipa Day 1

Today we woke up and headed to the airport to go to Arequipa. We were almost late because Erik told us we didn´t have to be there that early, but he was wrong. Luckily we didn´t have any luggage to check since we only had our day packs, but we were still practically running through the airport to make sure we caught our flight. Typically we were not sitting next to each other and the flight was full. As always I was sittign in the middle seat in the very last row of the plane. It alwys happens to me. I always get the crummy seats. Sarah was in row 7 and had an aisle and what do I get? Row 26 middle seat. I´m getting a little irritated at always havign to sit in the middle. This flight however was not as bad because my two people never showed up! So I was sitting in the last row, but I had it to myself. The people accross the way were a little obnoxious tough.

Anyway our flight had 2 other mini stops to let people on and off the plane. I´m in the back reading and all of a sudden here comes Sarah with her bag mad that I didn´t get off the plane like she did. (I however knew that this was not our stop) She had gotten her stuff, gotten off the plane and was waiting for me. She then had to beg to get back on the plane because he was at the wrong airport. I had no idea all of this happened until she got back onto the plane. I was amused to say the least.

Once we arrived at the right airport and got off the plane we grabbed a cab and went to find a hotel. We found a place and then went looking for a tour to Colca Canyon. We booked our tour and then walked around the town. I had officially began shopping for people. We ate dinner at this cute little indie crepe restaurant. It was so good. We then decided to go back to the hotel and go to bed because our tour was going to pick us up in the morning and we wanted to make sure we were well rested and ready to go.

02/26/08