On the way to Peru

In order not to make the trip any longer, we decided to leave Wednesday night after work and spend the night at the Comfort Inn next to the St. Louis airport.  They had a shuttle to the airport and we got to keep Terry & Shelly's car there for free.  We got up very early on Thursday morning and headed to the airport.  Our flight to Chicago was to leave at 7 am.  It was a short flight and we had a short layover and we were on our way to Miami.  At Miami we met Kelly Winquist who was part of our group.  She recognized our Buckner t-shirts and inquired if we were going to Peru.  Her husband was supposed to meet up with her  in Chicago, then Miami, but had missed his flights.  He caught up in Lima.  We left about 4:15 pm EST from Miami and made it Lima about  8:30 pm.  It was about a 5 hour flight, so  it was not  too bad.  We had much longer on our trips to  Kenya.  At the airport we met up with Morgan Byrd, who had  traveled down by herself.  Again, the t-shirts did the trick as we were recognized.  We  made it through customs and were picked up by Peruvian Buckner staff.  We met several other trip members at airport.  A van was there to transport us to the hotel.  There was about 8 of us.  We had had 2 carry on bags in addtion to 2 check in bags.  Was not too  certain we  would  fit them all, but our driver  put them on top and tied them down.  It was about an hour with traffic to the hotel.  We checked in and were  definitely ready to hit the sack.  Tomorrow morning would  be early enough and it would be a busy day.