Boricua en la Lima

We are just coming back from an overnight trip to London to see Madonna in Hyde Park. Our penultimate stop on the European tour before we head over to Lima on August 8th. Our flight from Geneva yesterday morning was delayed for 4 hours so we almost didn't take the trip after all. But we ended up going back to the airport after a cat nap and headed out to London with just enough time to eat at Chipotle (husband's London cravings), get lost around Regent Street (where they have now put up all the countries' flags for the Olympics) and head over to Hyde Park with aching feet from walking too much in cheap sandals (it's been an eventful week for my feet with Zumba-related complications as well which didn't let me wear tennis shoes!). The atmosphere at Hyde Park for a concert is an incredible thing to see. Such a diverse array of people - some of them young, some of them old (ahem, us), a lot of them gay, a lot of them dressed in crazy Madonna 80's outfits, and ...

It started Thursday of last week.  My older girls' class was going on a picnic on Thursday and since we had just told the teachers we were leaving for Peru the teacher invited me to join.  I was super excited and doing my photographer job but then right before lunch I started feeling pretty crappy.  I thought it was the heat -- that was probably the hottest day of the year so far and spending it outside in a park was of course not helping.  Jose offered to come and get me but I felt that I had to stay with the kids' class.  By the end of that day I was exhausted but thought it was just the class trip - who wouldn't be after spending a whole day with 20 kids in the park?! By Friday I could barely move.  I actually went with the kids after school to the beach but was just lying there in the beach towel.  When we got home I officially declared "that's it, I can't get up from this couch".  Jose thought I should go to the ER on Friday night but I didn'...

Last week we finally made the decision that we are moving to Peru in August.  What could've been a sad thing for the kids was thankfully turned on its head by the fact that Peru is the place we're going to! Now they're super excited -- primarily about family of course but now they've also started thinking about decorating their new rooms (although we won't get a new apartment until probably December so we'll have to live with Jose's grandma until then) and being able to take soccer lessons, tennis lessons, dance lessons, swimming lessons, you name it lessons.  Finding schools has been a challenge though so we're still working on that which is really the most important thing at this point.  I was also an emotional wreck at the end of last week when we had to say goodbye to the kids' teachers, friends and parents after two wonderful school years at Ecolint . We will never forget their teachers and friends, such a wonderful group of people from all over...