Our first few days

Sorry. No pictures right now. This is our first time on internet and we are sad to find out we will only have access to internet and phone once a week. Well, we made it here safely. It´s hot and humid, our clothes will mold if we don´t wash them in a couple weeks...there will be some losses. The girls at the POPPYS house in Santa Tomas are awesome. Many different personalities and we love them all. There are 4 awesome dogs at the property, 2 annoying goats, 2 crazy blue parrots (we keep our distance), 2 of the cutest pygmy monkies ever (Tito, the baby who is as small as two of Kelly´s fingers, and Tsunami, the adult who is the size of Kelly´s hand), and some chickens & roosters. We did have a gecko in our room we named Geico, but he´s not around much. And this morning we had a baby tarantula the size of my hand...yeah...that was interesting. He´s gone now. RIP.

The mode of transportation is most commonly motocarros (a 3-wheel motorcycle with a bench in the back, instead of back wheel). The rules of the road are merely don´t hit anyone else & get out of the way of oncoming traffic. Last night we had an interesting moto ride. Late at night (hopefully a rare experience) and without headlights. Our town, Santa Tomas, is about 15 min outside of Iquitos, in the daytime. It was hard to find a driver because they didn´t want to take us that far at night (no people wanting a ride back and it could be slightly dangerous in the pitch black). We were scared and we didn´t yet know the drivers don´t use their headlights to save their battery juices. It´s a long and streetlight-free zone on the very bumpy and rutted mud road out there. We picked up 3 people walking (which is a terribly long trip). Our driver got them, but they were very friendly people and we felt safer having them with us. Apparently our driver could see some remnants of the road (for we could not!) and we got there safely.

Speaking of which, we must get back to the house because it´s just as dark, but much earlier. We will post pictures soon, we hope, and you all can enjoy those. Thanks for your support and please keep praying for us! We are still adjusting.