A new Year

Hello All!
Welcome to a new year and new decade of human existance. I hope you all had a wonderful time celebrating the New Year with loved ones.
I spent the new year celebration in Punta Hermosa. It is this little surfer town South of Lima in Peru. We were recommended to go here by Jessica (who we are staying with in Lima) and were told it would be a good party. And was it ever!
So, our "new years" started with us buying a calling card so that we could call our loved ones back in the States (which I learned is funny to call it such because "estados"=states means more like an emotional state, so its strange to say "in the state..." the state of what??). Anyway, we looked for a phone to call from, and the first one we tried didn´t work. So, we wandered around the beachfront a little more until we found another phone. It was outside of this restaurant, and there were all sorts of people chatting eating and drinking around the tabels. Well, that phone didn´t work, but we did end up striking conversation with 3 Brazillian surfers who were here for a surf holiday. They invited us for some wine (Chilean, thank god-Peruvian wine is awful) and we ended up hitting off what turned out to be a wonderful conversation and friendshhip in a mix of English, Spanish and Portugese. So, we agreed to meet up before the New Year celebration as Margot and I had to take our stuff to the house we were staying at (Carol, the niece of Jessica) and they were going to their hostel to shower, etc... So, we found Carol and went to drop our stuff off at her house. There we encountered a LOT of very party-animal Peruvians, but scored some free drinks. We had put our stuff in Carol´s room, knowing that it would not be needed until much later in the night. So, we snuck out of the house party (it was a little lame and we had Brazillian friends to meet up with!) and walked down to the playa. We met our friends and drank, wandered, watch fireworks and went into the waves to ring in the New Year. I had my baithing suit on, so naturally I jumped, frolliced and dove into the wonderful waters of the Pacific Ocean. Definately a good way to celebrate...
Then, we hung with our friends more, danced in the streets, hugged, kissed and said our "feliz año" to everyone, and made our way back to Carol´s. Ugh. When we got there, it was very different than when we had left. Including an inconvenient lock on the door of the room with our stuff in it. Left to fend for ourselfs, Margot and I went to look for a place to finally rest our heads. We found one room, but were soon kicked out by the guy that lives there, ok... Then found another room with a bunk bed and extra bed where we decided would be good to sleep. WRONG. We were immediately invaded by drunk Peruvians who offered any and everything from conversing to..... not conversing. The entire night we were being touched and bothered by all these guys! It was horrible. They weren´t touching us in any wrong, sexual way, but just grabbing out feet, arms, etc... and it was so bothersome! This lasted for Way too long, and finally margot was like "lets get the _______ out of here!" agreed. So, we knew where our Brazillian friends were staying, and after getting our stuff out of the (finally) unlocked room, we went to look for a place we could Actually sleep. So, we went to their hostel and was told they had no spaces, but the place across the street did. So we knocked on their door, and the Señora told us "no". But, fortunately for us, the man next door heard us, and arranged four chairs for us to put together on his back deck. It wasn´t luxury, but we were alone and not being bothered, and right by the coast. Once we were coherent enough, we got up and learned that his house was, in fact a hostel but was currently full, so that was the least he could do. We thanked him a bunch for the hospitality, and he continued with feeding us breakfast And lunch. All for no price. Only being nice. Feeling better, we went Back to the other hostel where our friends were, and were granted a room to stay in. So, we finally had our own room, and meals are included! Its really nice here, and as it turns out, it is a Surf Camp! So, here we are surrounded by a bunch of gorgeous Brazillian surfers (almost everyone is from Brazil, apparently)in the middle of Peru. Isn´t life funny? Yesterday and today have been spent very tranquiloly but we are definately looking forward to getting out of Lima, and going up furthur North to Mancora, another surf town. So, in the end, everything has worked out just splendedly, but we are for sure looking forward to what other adventures are in store for us. Plus, I am picking up a little portugese...Brazil, anyone???
Until next time...
Chau