Day 33

Here I am - up bright and early - on the island of Tequile. I'm rocking a Disney World shirt. [[Special shout out to my beautiful Mom for this gem of a shirt]]

I got up around 5:15 to see the sunrise on the island. I got to see it a little bit, however it was very cold and I was fairly tired so I went back to sleep until around 7 am.

At 7:30 we had breakfast - pancakes, jam and tea. 

After breakfast, we gathered all of our gifts together for the families and distributed them.

Here is a picture of one of the natives on the island happily receiving our gifts.

Here is my group with the some of the natives on the island of Tequile.

After the gifts, we went on our boat to travel on over to a peninsula for some lunch.

The voyage was a tad bit rough because the morning brought some intense waves.

Here I am on the peninsula.

For lunch we had soup, stuffed chicken, french fries and rice. It was very nice for the family to make us some food.

Here is a picture of me with the family that prepared lunch for us.

After lunch, we took the boat back to shore, and from there, we took a SIX hour bus ride - straight through - to the city of Arequipa. 

Arequipa is a little like New York. It is very commercialized. There is a KFC, TGI Friday's, Chili's, Starbucks, McDonalds, Pizza Hut and Burger King. 

I have not gone to ANY of these places.

Anyway, once we arrived to Arequipa, we checked into our hotel and then went to grab a quick bite.

Me, Estefania, Nichole, Amanda and Cristina went to a place called Ekeko (pronounced ech-echo) I think this is a clever/funny name. 

Ech Echooooooo. 

I wasn't very hungry so all I got was some fresh pineapple juice, and of course I split some tres leches cake and a brownie sundae. Yum!

Then....

I went to bed.

I cannot believe this is my last week in Peru. 

Time has flown by!

Hasta pronto mis amores =)