A nice day in Lima...

It's about 2030 on Monday, and we are just getting back from a nice sunset meal at a restaurant on the water in Lima, La Rosa Nautica. We started the day by sleeping in, after arriving at the hotel after midnight. And then, a day of wandering and shopping. We had lunch at a wonderful local restaurant ... Tony Roma's! The menu was a little different - we could have had yucca fries, but chose potato instead. It was nice to have something a bit familiar. We passed up the Starbuck's, though.

We have a few more hours in Lima, and then we schlep our bags to the airport for a 0500 flight to Iquitos, the largest city in the world that is acceptable only by air or water. We are then spending the next couple of nights in a lodge, with hammocks, misquito netting, and no electricity. I'm not sure, but this might be the lodge: Muyuma Lodge.  [UPDATE:  The lodge we stayed at has a nice website:  www.AmazonLodgeSafaris.com.]

Then, a day in Iquitos, before we start our way back to EEUU, the United States. We'll be home in the early afternoon of Saturday.

We've met some wonderful people, and in many ways it seems that we've been here for weeks already. The Peruvians we met in Chao, Cascas, and Trujillo were each a bit different, but warm and thankful for the little bit of work that we did. As we left the Trujillo airport last night, Carlos Angulo thanked Wendi and I for our hard work - there is so much need; it seems that we did very little. But, as Jesus promises:

Matthew 10:42 (New International Version)

"And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is my disciple, I tell you the truth, he will certainly not lose his reward."

I pray that our work was some relief to some of the little ones we met. Not for our reward, but because we are his disciples.

And, we've met some wonderful people on the mission team. There is no way to give each of them their due, but I do want to thank them for their work, their help. Jack Story has done a wonderful job of taking care of us. It has been wonderful sharing time with Leon Jasper. And, we've shared in the fellowship that comes only in the Lord.

I don't know if we'll get a chance to update y'all before we get back to the US. (We're learning some Southern as well as some Spanish!) Until then, our thoughts are with our friends and family back home. We miss you ...