Lima - Visa Adventure

In August, we made a trip down to Lima to apply for our permanent religious visas as our temporary visas were about to expire. Come to find out, we missed our asking window by 2 days, and our new visas would have to be put on hold until we left the country and re-entered. Although the man we were working with wanted us to cancel our bus tickets home and put us on a plane to Ecuador right away, we decided to wait and make a trip of it when our work schedules allowed a more convenient time. We went ahead and paid a bunch of money and were registered with the International Police to start the fun process. We had a couple of trips back and forth from agency to immigration office to agency, back to immigration office to international police and then back to agency and still not really sure we accomplished much - but we made the best out of it and enjoyed getting to know Lima a bit better. We even enjoyed a taste of American food at Chili’s in Miraflores. It was like magically traveling to America for some skillet queso and a burger before walking out the front doors back into Lima-land. We visited the zoo, went on a quest to find the best Alfajor (special Peruvian cookie) in town... We had a great trip.