Apparently 4 too many. even the guy at United Airlines ticket counter was appalled at how many boarding passes he had to print out for me.
My journey went from Saginaw, MI -> O'Hare, IL -> Ft. Lauderdale, FL -> Panama City, Panama -> Lima Peru.
The flights were overall uneventful, but there was something quite amusing during my overnight stay at Ft. Lauderdale Airport. I arrived at 10:30pm and within 30 seconds of sitting down for the night, one of the cleaning crew members started to talk to me, which was fine. We had a good conversation (albiet, him trying to flirt with me) for a bit, and after a brief moment of silence, he says " by the way, you are really cute." (At least he was young and decent looking, so it wasn't creepy) Not knowing what to reply to that, I just said thank you and thought to myself, "hm... maybe I shouldn't sleep tonight." I ended up staying up most of the night as the arm rest between chairs made it impossible to lay down anywhere. Plus, I didn't know if the dude would keep coming back to the section I was at since he did spend a LONG time clean that section.... There was wifi after all (well sort of, it was so slow, I just hot spotted from my phone instead. I think I used more data that night than I've ever used, so I definitely used my month's worth even though I am unable to actually use my phone for an entire month, SCORE!) so I just began a new k-drama, "Three Days" with Micky YooChun. I got through like 3 episodes. so far so good. Thanks mom for the recommendation.
Anyways, I was kind of tired by the time my flight came along at 7am the next morning given that I was only able to nap about ~1hr. My entire flight was filled with spanish speaking families who just visited Disneyworld. I was super jealous. I hope to go to Disneyworld again one day. It was a nice surprise that I was fed breakfast (during the flight from FL -> Panama) and lunch (Panama-> Lima) as I was totally not expecting it, and the flights were only ~3hrs each. It WAS through Copa Airlines and not United Airlines though. Why do airlines governed by other countries always have better service?
Breakfast: Tacos
Waiting in Panama. no wifi = time to take crappy pictures
Lunch: Potato Cake with beef. That's not the actual name, but I don't know what it is called. also, guava juice which was quite tasty
After arriving in Lima, I proceeded to wait for my friend MK, JS, and JL's flight to arrive for 7.5 long and miserable hours as there was no free wifi. When the time finally came to meet them after international arrivals, I was appalled by the amount of friends and families there waiting. When I arrived, there were not too many. I thought I would not find them in time to catch a 40min taxi ride over to the bus station so we could bus to Trujillo.
Bad camera angle, but this was the best I could do from the second floor as people were crowding the balcony as well.
I ended up standing on a luguage cart so I could be a itsy-bit taller so my friends could see me,
otherwise we really would have missed out bus. They wondered how I was so tall ;D
.... maybe I shouldn't have given away my secret. oh well =/
The taxi ride was an interesting experience. Let's just say, driving in Peru is almost like riding in bumper cars. no kidding. people are crazy and there are more Taxis than ants. More about that later. We made it just in time to pick up our tickets and get on the bus =)
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