Despite some bad storms in Atlanta causing flight delays and cancellations, my mom still made it in to Lima safe and sound, and more or less on time, late Friday night. I showed her around some of the city today, where she experienced the crazy traffic and learned to love the pretty decent Peruvian Nuevo Sol to American dollar exchange rate. Thus, we had a great time shopping in all of the markets!

Tomorrow we are heading to Cuzco to begin our journey, later to the city of Puno and Lake Titicaca, and finally back towards the Cuzco region and Machu Picchu as a grand finale. Our taxi is picking us up at 4 o'clock AM tomorrow morning in order for us to catch our early flight. With that, I am going to go get some sleep!