Today is kind of a relaxing day here in Peru. We are in a place called Santiago just outside of Ica visiting a church that Titus helped with construction after the earthquake.

They had their service last night but we will not be going back to Pisco till Thursday because Peru has a national taxi strike today to protest something. The taxi drivers that are ignoring the strike are charging a lot to take people anywhere. We heard that some taxi that ignored the strike had people throwing rocks at them. We saw a some kids puting rocks out in the road so that people driving by would have to slow down.

Peru is very interesting. Its nothing like I thought it would be, the area we are in seems to be mostly desert so everything is kind of brown. Pisco still has a lot of earthquake damage and there are piles of debris sitting in many of the streets. When I first got of the plane I thought this place was kind of dirty, but by now I am pretty used to it.

In Peru they eat chicken a lot. Most restaurants start the meal with Sopa con Pollo (soup with chicken). Its interesting because sometimes you will have a chicken foot, or other body part, nothing is too weird for your soup. They always give you a little dish with lemons and rocoto(a hot sauce) on it to go with your soup. Your soup is normally kind of like chicken noodle and then you squeese a wedge of lemon into it. Its really good. I normally add some of the rocoto too.