Hola from Lima, Peru!

I am at the Colon Hotel in Mira Flores where it is hard to figure out how to use the internet. There is no light in here and so the computer screen is very bright and hurts my eyes. And the mouse keys are backwards from how they are at home.

Wally-- i just called joe and forgot to ask him to call you''sorry! It is hard to do the uppercase letters here-the keyboard is different, so sometimes i´m not bothering with them.

Today we visited the home for girls who were rescued out of prostitution. I made a new friend named Thalia who is 14. She has been at the home for 2 years. Can you imagine what kind of person would pay to take advantage of little girls? Several of the girls had babies or young kids and they were beautiful. Thalia kept coming up to me and finding me and wanting me to come with her for different things. I was able to help her with her new shoes, too. That was a blessing.

The Colon Hotel is rather nice. I need a reminder sign in front of me about not putting paper in the toilet, though. (Yes, you can not put paper in the toilets here. You have to put it in little trash cans beside the toilets. And not all the toilets and stalls have TP in them. There is a sign in el bano in my hotel room but it is behind the "WC" so --out of sight, out of mind!
Speaking of El Bano, I need to go there, por favor.

I have taken lots of pics but I can´t see if there is a USB port on this computer or not. I think I´ll go to El Bano and get my glasses and flashlight and see what I find out--when I come back to the business computer room, I mean.

As far as food, I had breakfast at the hotel this morning. I had some pancakes with syrup that tasted like honey, some scrambled eggs (not as good as Joe´s) , coffee, orange juice, cantaloupe, some other kind of fruit, etc. We ate lunch at a traditional Peruvian buffet restaurant. It was good. I tried lots of different foods'--even a bite of grilled beef heart served on skewers! We had dinner at a very nice Peruvian Chinese restaurant overlooking the Pacific OCEAN.
This is an awesome experience so far. Thanks for your prayers!
I´ll write more when I can see better!

Beunos Noches/Ciao!
Jennifer