The New Neighborhood

We finally arrived in Lima, Peru on August 11th.  Because you always arrive in Lima at midnight you are never sure what things look like around town.  The Hotel Libertador, which will be our home until our things are out of Customs, ended up looking pretty nice.

You can see our apartment just down the street.  It is the first white building that you
can see to the right of the hotel.

The hotel room was big enough to enjoy without stepping on our luggage and belongings...


 
which became very important once we started unpacking our bags.

It is amazing what you can get in 6 suitcases and 3 carry-ons.

We had to pack for the unknown.  We did not know if our stay in the hotel would be 2 weeks or 6.  We also had no idea exactly what the weather would be like.  We only knew that we were leaving the hot dry summer of Utah and moving to the damp cool winter of Peru.

We could finally unwind after four months of craziness getting ready for the move!

Our apartment is just up the street from the hotel.  The name of our street is Los Eucaliptos.  It is not very fun to pronounce.  (Los  A-oo-ka-lip-tose)  That is the word for "eucalyptus trees"...but you probably already figured that out.   

This is our stackable washer and dryer in the apartment.

That has made it nice to do laundry while we have been staying in the hotel.

Here is a quick tour of the apartment...often stating the obvious.

"Front" door on the left.  Stairs to the bedrooms on the right.  Livingroom straight ahead.



Balcony off the living room.

View from the balcony.  Our hotel is behind the orange building on the left.  Behind the hotel is the ocean.  Lima is very overcast much of the time so you can only see the ocean once in a while. 

The view from our balcony and front bedrooms.  On a clear day you can see the islands out in the ocean.  The trees in the foreground are in the park just across the street from our apartment.

Guest bath at the bottom of the stairs in entry hallway.

Obviously the kitchen.  We think they could have found a better place for the water heaters.  Normally the only one that would see the kitchen and the water heaters is the hired cook.  In this case that would be Julie. 

Master bedroom

Walk-through closet to get to the bathroom.

Master bathroom...

with jetted- tub!

Back bedroom.  The previous owners left this table and chairs.

Back bedroom closet and...



attatched bathroom.

Small front bedroom...

closet...

and attatched bathroom.

This, and the following pictures, are the park in front of our apartment. 

It will be nice to go outside and enjoy the park once the weather gets warmer as we move into spring and summer.  Right now, in the dead of the Peruvian winter, the temperatures are in the 50's and 60's with plenty of humidity.

You never see raindrops, but the frequent mist helps keep the vegetation green and the sidewalks slippery.

Our park has it's own statue.  We just don't don't know who the hero is.
We will have to Google his name sometime.

Our apartment in the background.