June 7

Yesterday was definitely one of the more eventful days that I have spent here. We took a comvi to mancora, a little beach town in the north of Peru, four hours from Ecuador and two from piura. I finished a really good book on the way, mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. I highly recommend it to anyone, I really enjoyed it. We spent the evening on the beach. Kiley, one of the girls here, my roommate, and I got to ride horses! It was so fun! I even got mine to gallop! It was so amazing. We got dinner at a real Italian restaurant, served to us by an Italian. Then walked around the town a little bit. This place is the most touristy place I have been so far. There were other white people which was strange. We saw these kids performing Peruvian dances for their school and that was really cool too. Later we went to the place we were planning on staying, our neighbor offered his house complex thing he is developing out here. We got a ride from some guys and we fit all nine of us in the bed of their truck. When we got there, half just grabbed their stuff to go back to town to stay in a hotel. For good reason. The other five of us were going to be tough and stay, since it was free. But, when we got there we found rat poop on the beds and there were tons of spiders and we found a scorpion! Needless to say we left after that to go find a hostel back in town. It was 11:30 at night though so we had to walk down the dark stretch of highway and that was freaky. Along the way we saw giant frogs and a tarantula! Eventually and nice mototaxi driver came by and  offered to take us into town. There were five of us though so two of us had to stand on the back of the moto, which was pretty fun. The driver helped us find a hostel and stayed with us until we were certain that's what we wanted. He was very helpful. By that time it was midnight and we were all exhausted! Our hostel has wifi though, this morning is beautiful and sunny, barely a cloud in the sky, we went on a run down the beach and then cooled off in the water, now we are going to meet everyone else at noon then spend more time just on the beach. I think today is going to be a wonderful day!  Love you all!  Amber Kiley and I with our horses Our roommate, the scorpion The sunset was gorgeous