Weekend Trip to Ica

This weekend I, along with 6 other exchange students, went to Ica, Peru, a city about 4 hours south of Lima. Our Rotary counselors decided it would be fun to take us down for a few days, so we drove the 4 hours and stayed with my counselor's parents who live in the area. It was a ton of fun. Ica is known for its sand dunes, so naturally we took advantage of that and spent an afternoon out sand boarding in the dunes. That was a blast. They put you in these cool cars and drive you really fast through the dunes, like a roller coaster, and then there are places where they let you off at the top of a dune with a board and let you go down. Some people went standing up, but I always went on my stomach instead. It is much easier, and you get a lot more speed. It was the most fun I have had in a very long time. I'm hoping a get a chance to go back and do it again, because it really was an amazing experience! Not only was it a blast, but it was just very cool. I have never been in sand dunes before, so it was a completely new and interesting experience for me. I felt like I was in a movie or something (Aladdin came to mind a few times).

On our way home from Ica on Sunday, our car broke down. That was a fun time. We were stuck on the side of the road for over an hour waiting to find someone who could pull our car! When we finally did, they only pulled us half of the way back to Ica, and from there we had to find ANOTHER car to take us the second half. Once we made it back to Ica, we found out that there wasn't even a bus we could take back to Lima until Monday morning, so we ended up spending another night and catching the bus home on Monday morning. It was a little crazy, and I am exhausted, but it was a great time!