Peru Part I

(April 1, 2019)

 

For Romneys 40th birthday I wanted to surprise him with something BIG.

But I knew I wanted him to be super excited about it.

 I caved and told him about the two different places I was thinking about.

They were places that were super high on his bucketlist.

He picked Peru!

We invited our traveling buddies and the Tangs were in!

There was lots of planning and coordinating and pre purchasing tickets etc....

WELL......

We drive out to LA so excited!

We park, we walk in the airport, we stand in line, we hand over our passports and

we were told our Passports were NO GOOD and that we could NOT get on the plane.

Wait, what???

The lady at the front desk told us that we needed at least a 6 month buffer before the expiration date.

We were shocked!

So really a 10 year old passport was only good for 9.5 years.

They printed up paper work for us to take to the consulate and get a "same day passport" 

We told Jason and Heather to go ahead and that we would meet up with them the next day.

We all said goodbye hesitantly.

And we rushed to a Wallgreens and worked on new passport pictures.

We ended up taking and retaking pictures and eating powdered donuts with the photo guy!

It was a disaster yet hysterical. 

We left for a hotel and slept for MAYBE 3 hours.

 

We woke up so early the next day so we could wait in line at the consulate office.

300.00 dollars later we got new passports!

We got back to the airport super confident to only find a HUGE backed up line.

Apparently the plane was having issues with the bathrooms.

They couldn't let us on the plane if the bathrooms weren't working.

I ran all over the airport trying to get on another flight with other airlines.

If we missed this flight it would screw up the entire trip!

I said so many prayers.

I prayed for the people working on the bathrooms that they would see the problem

I prayed for the plumbing to work

I prayed for every detail I could think of....

and BAM- it got the green light.

WE FINALLY got on the plane and were officially ready to start this adventure--even though the adventure started 24 hours earlier!

 

We landed in Cuzco!

It felt amazing to have made it after the fiasco!

The Tangs were supposed to be there waiting for us but they weren't...yet.

Eventually they made it and Jason had the taxi driver get out to hold the sign they made.

Love it!

We got in the taxi and set out on adventure number two.

We had a couple hour drive to Ollantaytambo to catch a train.

 

We stopped along the way for bathroom breaks and saw this gem of a woman and her llama

 

we stopped to look out over Sacred Valley

It was GORGEOUS!

 

Our awesome cabby got us to the town of Ollantaytambo where adventure number three awaited.

We walked through the cobblestone alleys exploring a new country and looked for dinner.

 

We found the guy in the rock

Eventually we found mediocre food only to realize we needed to get out of there-we had a train to catch (adventure number four)!

It literally was a day of trains, planes and automobiles.

and it was

 a w e s o m e.