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Did you know Alf speaks Spanish? 

We don’t have cable, but with our bunny ears we get about 5 local channels. Most of the time only Peruvian shows are on. But every once and a while they’ll put out a dubbed U.S. sitcom or movie.
Alf is one of our favorites.

Road to the beach. This is the only picture I got before the batteries went dead in my camera.  

The beach. There’s like 5 billion beaches in Peru. In fact, the whole western border is one big beach! So, I guess there’s not 5 billion beaches . . . there’s just one . . . . but it’s really really really long!

Anyway, we decided to visit one this morning for a few hours. Puerto Viejo se llama. About an hour outside of Lima. It was cool. We were the only people out there, except for a few surfers. We didn’t stay too long. Just enough time for Amanda to get cooked.

I did, however, learn how to drive on sand. Rule #1: Put your vehicle in High 4. Rule #2: Don’t slow down! Rule #3: Getting some speed up before you hit the soft sand.

I followed none of these rules (because I didn’t know them yet) and got stuck big time! I dug and dug and dug and dug . . . and put rocks and rocks and dug and dug. Finally this really cool surfer guy came and pulled us out and showed me how to drive on sand.

A new deacon in our church. 

They installed two new deacons at our church this morning. The pastor talked about how the word Deacon comes from the Greek word to serve. I never knew that. Deacons were originally put into place to do the tough, behind the scenes jobs of serving the church.

The top 5 candidates. 

The top presidencial candidates Humala and Flores are making last minute pleas before April 9th. 

The Classified Ads 

El Comercio is the Peruvian paper of record. It’s a lot like the ARDem, but in Spanish! I’ll buy one every few days to see what’s inside. I’m to the point now, where I can read most of the articles without too many problems.

It’s really interesting to look at things like the Classifieds. I used to always look at them in the U.S. It seems to be a lot of the same stuff: cars, ice-cream makers, desks, couches, etc.

Right now the presidencial election is occupying the front page these days. Humala and Flores are duking it out. They go back and forth in the polls. The elections will be the 9th of April.