Happy happy happy anniversary!

4 years? Already!? That's crazy talk! Wanna know what is MORE CRAZY? That of our 4 years of marriage, almost 2 have been spent living in Peru. Looking back now on us making the decision to apply for this job, we were a little crazy! I mean, we had been married for 1.5 years when we hd our interview! But we were also the exception. This year has been WAY better than last year- it was BRUTAL trying to adjust to life down here, with a bunch if other curve balls thrown in with it! 4 years down, we're pretty much experts.... Not. But we still really like each other- so that's good. We came to Lima to celebrate with a tiny get away. Normally we only come to Lima to work in the temple, or for James to take meetings. We fly in, run around getting stuff done, then fly out after a few days of madness. Today, we just hung out. Spent the day doing all the things we love here, but can only do one per trip.
We slept in, went to one of our favorite restaurants for breakfast, and just about had one of everything on the menu. We stopped at a yarn shop so I could buy alpaca yarn by the pound-and ended up leaving with way more than we had intended. Next we hit a store James liked for their running shoe selection, but alas, he didn't find anything that spoke to him. We wandered through a grocery store looking for fun imports from home-like twizzlers! Yay! Had lunch at Burger King (James lunch choice-because we don't have one in Trujillo.). We then wandered through the Peruvian culture museum. It has 3 floors of exhibits. One floor was dedicated to the inca trail. It's a LOT longer than people think. They also had a cool exhibit of artifacts that had been found at construction sites throughout the city. Next stop was a hippy/Indian clothing store and an Asian market. I finally found a sushi roll mat! It's ON now! Came back to our hotel, freshened up- then walked to our favorite Italian restaurant for dinner. Isn't it weird when you're served food that looks questionable, but tastes amazing? We both ordered pasta dished with the same sauce-and it came out brown.... On pasta.... It just didn't look right. But it was incredible. This restaurant is owned by an Italian couple who have lived here for a long time. From what I hear one of the 2 of them still doesn't speak Spanish? Anyways, it's pretty authentic. 2 big brick ovens- it's so cool.
We made a list if our favorite experiences over the last 4 years. I'll update tomorrow. And edit this whole post. I'm falling asleep and kinda don't know what I'm writing! Nighty night!