LIMA!!!

YAY!! Finally in Lima! It´s an interesting mix of Spain and Mexico. We´re staying in Miraflores, one of the nicer neighborhoods, near the beach. The weather here is nice and sunny (John got a little sunburned today) but pretty humid/smoggy. We plan on leaving here tomorrow for Pisco, a little city to the south of Lima for hopefully cleaner beaches and a little more quiet and relaxation.
Today we took a taxi to the center of Lima and watched the changing of the guards at the Governor´s palace. We then looked at the monestary of San Francisco where just about every important piece of religious furniture was coated in gold. It also had a catacomb with about 10,000 peoples-worth of bones. The graves in one section were 4 meters deep (about 13 feet deep) and there were supposedly 4 levels of graves! That´s a lot of bones. After that we went to a nearby restaurant where we ate lunch off the "menu economico." I had potatoes in cream sauce, John had a stuffed avocado, and we both had the arroz con pollo and a drink for s/6 or $2. We ate about 5 hours ago and I´m still not hungry!
John and I tried to up load some pictures today, but the connection or the computer or maybe both were a little too slow and would never really complete the uploading. Maybe we´ll have better luck next time.
Miss and love you all!
<3
Lauren