After 6 months of living at the hotel we have finally moved home! We are beyond thankful for the refuge that El Castillo was for us for those 6 months of quarantine. It was such a huge blessing having the yard and gardens at the hotel so the kids could play outside all day every day and also the community we had there within the hotel with the owners and their family.
Now that we are home we are so thankful to be home. The kids have loved having all these “new” toys to play with and we have loved getting to reconnect face to face (mask to mask) with some neighbors we hadn’t seen in the six months we were at the hotel. One of my favorite things we’ve gotten to do since we’ve been back in our home is celebrate our neighbor Frecia’s birthday on the roof with a cookout.
Being at home we are learning what our normal day-to-day life can be in COVID times. Kids still aren’t allowed in stores, malls, or restaurants, but we do take them outside every day to walk around the neighborhood. We continue to meet with the church on Zoom Sunday mornings because gatherings outside of immediate households aren’t allowed.
Peru has also opened up a little more and allowed travel between provinces so we drove down to the nearest beach with some of our US American friends we hadn’t seen the whole quarantine, the Wilke family. And then our family drove to the Colca Canyon to take a few days to be out of the city.
