Our trip to Chile

My husband and I left Lima on Monday, January 28 at 2:00 p.m., and we knew that the bus ride to Tacna, Peru would last 18 hours, and we would arrive on the 29th at 9:00 p.m., but I did not imagine that the trip would be so hard and tiring. But when we were on the bus, we played a bingo game. The winner of the game got a prize or a free ticket to return to Lima. A woman who works on the bus gave us all bingo cards, and we started to play the game, and really I did not know how to play the game because I had never played it before, but I quickly caught on. During the game, Tims card was soon missing only a few numbers, and then his card had all the numbers, and that was a great surprise, because Tims card was the winner, and we got a prize.... a free return ticket to Lima. It was very surprising and we were both very happy about what happened.

Well, I was nervous arriving at Tacna because I had never been there, and we had no idea what would happen when we got off the bus. When we got off the bus, I heard a man saying ¨Arica, Chile¨, and so I asked him if he was going there, and he said yes, and helped us to get our luggage. He was a taxi driver. When we arrived at the border between Peru and Chile, we did not have any problems, and were able to enter Chile.
Arica is a very quiet and beautiful city. The ocean is near, and so we wanted to go to the beach for a little bit, but we did not have time after going through the procedures to collect Tims resident visa. When we finished, we had to go back to a place in Arica to get a taxi to take us to Tacna. And then we saw the same man that helped us earlier that day, and so he took us back to Tacna. We were glad to have everything done, and be ready to return to Lima, and so we went and had to buy just one ticket to return to Lima.

Although the return trip was much more exhausting, thanks to God that we were able to return to Lima well, and also thank you for your prayers.