Hi!! Rebecca here writing from our first and pretty much only day in Lima. Today we slept in, ate breakfast, and headed out around two for a tour of the city. I got very dehydrated and slept a lot of the way, so I honestly can't tell you much of what we learned. However, once we got to the old city, I got water in me and I felt a lot better. We walked far too quickly through the too-awesome-to-walk-that-quickly stores, where we did not get to shop :(. We then headed into a crowded street where a school parade was going on. Schools were competing for something. We saw a lot of giant people on stilts dressed as puppets. Not gonna lie, some of them were creepy. They all had these weird smiles on their faces! I would get really freaked if I woke up in the middle of the night and saw one of them staring over me. Shayna probably has pictures. Anyways, after that we walked through this HUGE fancy church that could probably feed a few small countries with the money it took to build it. But whatever. Then the highlight/lowlight of our day: the catacombs. So apparent,y it was this thing, unknown, under the church that you shouldn't go in if you were claustrophobic. I'm not claustrophobic so I thought eh, might as well. It wasn't until we were too deep inside that we finally beer stand the word catacombs. Basically it was a giant tombstone with the bones of over 25,000 ancient people. Pretty disgusting, right? Oh no, it gets worse. We were in the tight space where we had to duck to fit in the tiny walls with like two other tour groups when we saw the bones. Organized by size and type. Human bones. Rotting. Oh no, it gets worse. We walked through a hallway where we saw more and more of these bones, and at the end, a pit of human skulls. I seriously thought I was going to throw up. My thought at the time was, however, if I throw up, it'll go into one of these pits and they'll have to scrub off the skulls individually of my vomit. Needless to say, not a pleasant thought. I will ease your mind though, I didn't throw up. Phew! And it gets a bit worse. We walked and saw this well of all the bones and decomposed bodies of the people they pretty much didn't have room for. So it was just a giant pit of skulls and bones. Yeah, worrisome. Disgusting, yes. Fun and interesting tour, yeah no. Finally, we had reached the end! Praise The Lord whose these bodies were buried in the name of! Anyways, we walked up and out of the church. We headed to dinner and now we are back at our hotel. It has been an exhausting day. I don't know about you, but I am ready to collapse. But not like the bones we saw today. Tomorrow, kuzco!! Till next time, Rebecca <3