The Peruvian Government....

The Peruvian government decided last Tuesday to give everyone Friday and Saturday to encourage intra-national travel.. soooo as soon as we heard that we had friday and saturday off we started to plan our weekend getaway!!!  this holiday break was much needed... although i love everyone in the house and love that there is always something going.. the fact that i can't have some alone time or some peace and quiet when i want it can be frustrating.. especially since i was sick last weekend..i digress.... anyways.. Amy, Lauren and Joy decide we want to relax in sun.. so we decide on Mancora..
    Mancora is a nine hour bus ride north of Trujillo and is supposed o have sun year round unlike Trujillo..... so we back our bags on Thursday and catch the overnight bus, Emtrafresa, close to our house...Some buses have a cama option which means the seats fully extend into a "bed" (cama is bed in spanish)... because we planned our trip so late we only got semi cama.... not ideal but it was fine!
    we arrived in mancora around 5:30 am... all discombobulated i stumble out of the bus barely holding all of my junk!  From there we catch a mototaxi to our hotel... mototaxis are motorcycles that have seats attached to the back.. don't think i am painting a good picture but not sure how else to describe it! Anyways.. we get to our hotel and it is sooo cute!! ( an English girl told me that one stereotype of Americans is that we use the word cute a lot and now i am acutely aware of the fact that i overuse the word!) Since we got there so early we were able to watch the sunrise and it was soo gorgeous! I was SOOO happy! Peace and quiet and SUN!! everything i needed for the weekend.. didn't think i would be asking for sun after the terrible summer we had in texas this year..
  The weekend was perfect.. it was filled with sleeping in , bathing in the sun, beers at noon, and watching the sunset! I was totally able to recharge my battery!
    Our return trip was Sunday night at 10:00PM... that got us back into Trujillo around 7:45 am... so i had about 1o minutes to get ready for work before i had to leave the house.. yikes..i am normally way more practical that that... but this is Peru after all, right?!?!