Carnival

This weekend we went to the beach. We left Friday afternoon.

That night we were at a birthday party of my parents friends in a town about three hours away from the beach town we go to. I didn't really want to be there, but I had an okay time. It went late and I finally was able to go to the hotel we were staying at at about two in the morning. The room was so hot and stuffy that I hardly got any sleep, not to mention I woke up at 8:30 that morning. We wound up leaving around one or two in the afternoon for the beach.

Saturday night was the 'Fiesta de La Punta del Bombon' and it was a dance that was like the one during New Years. Then on Sunday we were at the beach most of the day. I slept most of the time, but had a good time relaxing and got a little sunburnt.

That night was 'Carnavales' and I'm still not sure what it was all about, but it was fun. People were throwing something that was sort of like flour with food coloring in it, and spraying silly string at each other. I got it pretty bad, getting the flour smeared all over my face, and getting sprayed over and over, but it was very fun. I was glad that it all washed out well.

What is going on?

So it started raining today. And I mean pouring with rain. It started at around 3 or 4 in the afternoon and it hasn't stopped since. There is water covering the floor, filling up buckets, and I haven't the slightest idea what I should be doing.

The power in my area of the city was out, too. Most of the city, actually. It's really crazy to think that rain could do this much damage to things. But when you come from a place that is built to withstand rain and storms, you sort of pass it off as nothing. I'm starting to kind of freak out about it.


-abrazos y besos de Peru.