Sun, Sand and Cinema

We know, we know.  It's been a really long time since we blogged.  We even promised in our last post that we would start blogging every week and here we are, about 4 weeks later, with our next post.  The past month has been really busy with studying for midterms and doing school work, so we didn't really have much time to post.  Besides that, we hadn't really done anything super exciting enough to blog about. Haha.  But we figured that it was about time for us to update everyone in the good ole USA about our lives, so here's our next post (finally!).  


Like we said, for the past couple weeks we were doing a lot of school work and studying for midterms.  They have two weeks of midterms here, but for us it ended up being about three weeks because our Quechua midterm got delayed.  We still haven't gotten all of our grades back yet, but the ones we have gotten back have been good scores, so yay for us! 


Besides studying for midterms, we've mostly been hanging out at the parks near our house that we love to go to. Spring is finally coming into full force and there have been way more sunny days, which is great.  Lima is amazing when it's sunny!  Here are a few pictures from the park:

Paul relaxing and looking pensive as he watches the waves.

Some French tourists recreating this statue in the Park of Love.  We thought it was cute!

Some of the many colorful flowerbeds in the Park of Love.

Last weekend we also went to the cultural center that our university has here in Miraflores because they were showing Brazilian films (for free!) all week.  The movie was in Portuguese so we had to read the subtitles in Spanish, but we were able to follow along perfectly and we both really liked the movie!  It was called (in Portuguese) "Antes Que O Mundo Acabe" which means "Before the World Ends." 

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This past weekend we went to the park (yes, again) to see the sunset over the ocean.  Paul realized that somehow we had managed to be here all this time and not see the sunset, so we thought it would be the perfect thing to do for the evening.  Needless to say, we got some amazing pictures:

What a perfect time to be paragliding, right?!

On Saturday we went to Barranco (you may recall it from one of our earlier posts, known as the "bohemian district") to have lunch and wander around.  It was a beautiful day, and there was a wedding going on in the main plaza, which was really cool.  There were also a ton of people in the restaurant that we went to, as well as a band playing, and everyone was dancing and having a good time.  We were planning on taking a combi back to Miraflores, but then we ended up just walking back along the beach.  It took us about an hour, but it was gorgeous out, so it was a really nice walk.  

The set up of the wedding in Barranco's Plaza Municipal.

Many of the ladies in the restaurant dancing and having a good time!

Some kids running down to the beach.  It was a better view than this picture (taken with Caitlyn's old camera) lets on.

That structure built into the cliff there is Larcomar, the shopping center where we always go to see movies!

So that's a general update on what has been going on in our lives the past few weeks!  Sorry for such a long wait.  However, we aren't going to promise when our next blog will be... we don't want to disappoint you all.  Hopefully it will be very soon, though!