Living in Lima was pretty fun. \u00a0We lived in Lima for three weeks. \u00a0We did not have any big grocery stores, just tiny stores on the side of the street that sold candy bars, chips, vegetables, fruit, bread, water and sometimes things like black pepper. \u00a0My brother and I bought glass bottles of soda that we could return and refill them for 1.5 soles. \u00a0We went to walk around Lima and mom said there was a place called Divercity that was like a children’s museum. \u00a0In order to get to downtown, we had to take a bus that took about 2 hours and it was really crowded, the bus went really slow and kept stopping every few minutes. \u00a0Once I got to sit up front! \u00a0We got to a big shopping mall called Jockey Plaza because it had horse racing there. \u00a0We entered the mall into Tottus which is a grocery store. \u00a0Me and Sylvia were kind of excited about the children’s museum. \u00a0We found it in the mall, it was outside. Sylvia, Max, dad and I went into Divercity while Jack, Jennah, mom and Ryan walked around. \u00a0We had a really fun time. \u00a0When we first got there the person handed us a $250 check and we had to go over and sign a thing to get an ID. \u00a0Divercity is a little city that has little jobs you can do and get money from and then there are things you can spend money on like rock climbing walls and you can drive around in cars but you have to take a driving test which the driving test cost $30 and took half an hour and then you had to pay for a car. \u00a0I had to pass a Spanish driving test and I got third place out of 8 kids!<\/p>\n

Mom and dad were making plans to go to the Amazon. \u00a0Finally mom bought tickets. \u00a0She said we were leaving on Wednesday.To get to the airport, we flagged down a taxi and we all got in. \u00a0Max, Sylvia and I got into the wayback and we all scrunched in. \u00a0 \u00a0We got to the airport to wait for our flight. \u00a0The plane left. \u00a0It was 2 hours. \u00a0We landed and I got out and it was hot, really, really hot. \u00a0We got three motos and it was very nice on the moto! \u00a0But then it all went downhill when we went on the combi ride. \u00a0The combi ride was long and twisty and it made me feel sick. \u00a0We got to Yurimaguas and we took motos to buy hammocks for the boat we were going on on the Amazon River. \u00a0Once we bought hammocks, they said the boat was going to leave at 8. \u00a0When we got down to the dock, which was just a little place of ground, the boat was heading down the river. \u00a0We could see the lights. \u00a0There were bugs and bats and I was hungry. \u00a0A man told us there was another boat that carried passengers so dad and Ryan went to check it out. \u00a0After a few minutes, they came back and said it was kind of filled with bugs. \u00a0Mom said “Let me go see”. \u00a0She took Sylvia (because Sylvia had to go to the bathroom) Max and Ryan. \u00a0When they came back, Max told me there were lots of bugs, huge spiders and huge bugs and I started to get creeped out. \u00a0Mom said lets get a hotel for tonight and we can think about this tomorrow. \u00a0So we did.<\/p>\n

I woke up suddenly in the middle of the night. \u00a0There were three beds in our room and the middle bed was under a light and bugs would hit the light and fall on the bed. \u00a0I was afraid that bugs were on me. \u00a0But they weren’t.<\/p>\n

Next morning. mom and dad were already awake when I woke up. \u00a0I got out of bed and jumped into the shower. \u00a0We all got motos and went to the boat. \u00a0I finally got to go on the boat and see what it looked like. \u00a0I was like this isn’t so bad and then Max came over and said wait until it gets night Annie, wait. \u00a0I started to get creeped out again. \u00a0I stayed on the boat while mom, Sylvia, Ryan and Jack went to get water. \u00a0Jennah fell asleep. \u00a0Max was in his hammock sweating. \u00a0Dad and I went to the top of the boat. \u00a0We sat there watching the people carrying cargo onto the boat next door. \u00a0They were loading wheat on one boat and cows on the other boat. \u00a0They came back with the water and I went with them to get the bags.<\/p>\n

Life on the boat was like this: \u00a0it was hot, very, very hot. \u00a0There were a lot of bugs but they were not so bad but there were still a lot of bugs. \u00a0We slept in hammocks. \u00a0We were all together in this one space with our own hammocks with a lot of other people and a chicken and chicks. \u00a0We had a cabin which was fancy for the boat but not for us really. \u00a0The cabin had thin mattesses and when you closed the door it got really hot. \u00a0The bathroom was at the back of the boat and open so you could see the river and we saw river dolphins. The bathroom floor was always wet because people took showers in the bathroom stalls and wash laundry. \u00a0It was pretty nice to take a shower even if it was Amazon river water it still felt nice. \u00a0The kitchen on the boat had cooks who made food. \u00a0It was pretty good if when I think about it. Most people got into a big line. \u00a0We didn’t have to because we had a cabin and got special treatment. \u00a0What was for breakfast was bread and butter and banana milk porridge. \u00a0Lunch was pasta and chicken and some other stuff with potatoes and peas. \u00a0Dinner was the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Living in Lima was pretty fun. \u00a0We lived in Lima for three weeks. \u00a0We did not have any big grocery stores, just tiny stores on the side of the street that sold candy bars, chips, vegetables, fruit, bread, water and sometimes things like black pepper. \u00a0My brother and I bought glass bottles of soda that… Continue reading The Amazon Part One — Annabelle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329,23,298],"tags":[297],"class_list":["post-2320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska-to-patagonia","category-annabelle","category-amazon-2","tag-amazon","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2446,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions\/2446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}