Welcome Dinner

The Entire Group

The Last Supper~ Guinea Pig!

After the donation sorting party, we went together in a group to the welcome dinner. It was in a restaurant within walking distance to the hotel.








We met Navidad, our guide/translator for the week, and his assistant, Rosa. He briefly went over the expectation for the week and the schedule for the following morning. I appreciated his organized, simple explanations and his attention to details in the schedule. He had a nice demeanor and was going to be good at organizing our large group.

While we were at dinner,  a group of traditionally dressed musicians and dancers performed for us. We were clapping and enjoying the show, when Navidad asked Rhonda to dance. Every time there was live dancing in Peru, Rhonda was the first to be asked. Every.Single.Time. It was so funny. She does love to get her dance party on. She's got some kind of magnet in her that draws people to ask her to dance. It's one of my favorite things about her. She's open to new experiences. I've never seen her shy away in a social setting. She engages people in conversation and tells great stories. She is so fun to travel with!

Kim, Navidad, and Rosa

 After dinner, we had a shopping list of items to bring to the mud huts. Two large bottles of water and one regular sized, as well as one roll of toilet paper per person. We stopped at a grocery style store near the town plaza and got large waters for 3 soles each. At the hotel we were paying $3 (9 soles!) for a regular sized bottle of water. You would think that since we travel for a living we would be better at this, but we were behind the curve on everything! I don't know if it was the foreign currency, the language barrier, or the fact that we were traveling with our daughters, but these two fly girls were off our game!
Walking home for the night, a small child (probably around 8 years old) approached Rhonda to buy a hat. I had to keep walking! It was really our first time out in the shopping district, and as cute as she was, I wanted to wait to buy anything until we had spent more time looking. It was typical for adults to approach every 30 seconds asking us to buy something, but this was actually the one and only child that hit us up in Peru. I am glad we didn't see more of that because she was hard to resist! In fact, when Rhonda and Mackenzie caught up to us, they were the proud owners of not one, but FOUR hats! My sweet, tenderhearted friend. I love her so!