We spent the next few days getting settled in and Brad and Jenna still needed to find a place to live so a lot of the week was devoted into finding a place for them to call home.





Roky’s is one of Jake’s favorite restaurants so far, they claim to be the best chicken around.





Jake’s favorite dish is called Pollo Saltado. Its chicken tomatoes and onions over French fries with rice on the side. They absolutely love French fries here; they are served with everything and anything you could imagine. I’m still trying to figure out the rice and potato mix.



Delicious. This is my favorite meal called Tallarin. It’s a whole bunch of noodles with peppers and onions. Sometimes they serve it with spinach as well. Oh so good. These two dishes are what we eat a lot of. I’ve eaten more carbs probably in the last three weeks than I’ve eaten in a whole year! But it’s wonderful. However, Peruvian food does have its downsides. You have to stay away from any fruits or vegetables that you can’t peel and you can’t drink the water here. If you do, you won’t be a very happy camper the next day.



Most people don’t have cars here so taxis are everywhere you look! Most of the time they are pretty cheap but it starts to add up. Here we are all squished in the backseat. Jake’s holding the famous soda here. Inca Kola, it’s delicious. The bad thing about beverages here is no one really drinks water because you have to purchase it out of a bottle, so all you get is pop. And for someone that doesn’t really enjoy soda it’s been quite the adjustment.



One night Jake and Brad played soccer with some friends in the ward down here and we just chilled with these cute ninos all night. They were so cute and so excited to find we were Americans, but we couldn’t understand anything they were saying! The Spanish is coming along but its hard work. I am learning little by little and can understand and speak more every day.



Huaca de la Luna…this is the famous ruins here in Trujillo. We had an English guide teach us about the ruins. The funny thing is we couldn’t even understand her English! We would’ve been better off having the boys translate for us and her just speak in Spanish.



All of the bricks are original; they just started excavating this site about 15 years ago so it’s pretty new. This is where they believe they did the human sacrifices.



This picture was of their God. All of the faces are slightly different because they would carve everything by hand. The colors were also symbolic but I don’t really remember when they were symbolizing.




Me and Jakers at the dig site




Sorry the picture is kinda blurry but this is an empty tomb that was robbed by the grave robbers.



The lovely Brad and Jenna. You can see the layers of the temple where depicted with different paintings. There were 5 layers of the temple and each layer would consist completely of bricks to make the next level and so on.




Here is the outside of the temple and that was pretty much all of it. It was really interesting to see an ancient civilization. I always try and picture what the people were doing way back when.
And we are almost up to date. One more night to record, finally!