Sunday, September 11, 2011

Finally posting some photos...

I apologize for how random this photo is, but this is the piece of "Princesa" cheesecake that I ate in the Lima airport at about 3:30am...it was SO good!!

From our balcony...if you have good eyes, you can see the Pacific Ocean!

Our bedroom (complete with mosquito net)

Bathroom (and hot water heater!!)

Our "living room."  In a couple weeks, we'll be moving some chairs and a couch here instead of the extra bed.

Our food station (My new favorite appliance, for the record, is the griddle; you can literally cook ANYTHING on it!

The orchard (aka group of dying trees that David is trying to resurrect)

Roof.  (ocean in the distance again)



more roof again, plus our clotheslines and sand dunes in the background (there is a mountain there too, hiding behind the clouds)

featured: the night guard's hut where he watches everything.







the garden (also David's job) and the playground


These green buildings are the "casitas," little houses where the kids live.  The top floors are both girl floors, divided into older and younger girls, and the bottom floors are boy floors, divided into older and younger as well.  There are about 10-12 kids that live with a "madre tutora" who takes care of them.

view toward the front from the roof (also note the "security circles," which are the meeting places in case of emergency...we actually just dug those out a couple days ago because we were having a government inspection done.


One of the orphanage's friendly neighbors is a coal plant, so everything gets covered in dust on a regular basis.  You can see David's finger and the small smudge that he almost cleaned off.

Look, we're so cute (and in Peru)!  More pictures to come, we promise!


2 comments:

  1. You guys are impossibly cute. Great set of pics. No but srsly...to cute for cucumbers. :P

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  2. Seeing if I can figure this out per Courtneys instructions....here I go Aunt Jan

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