En Iquique, but maybe for longer than we planned

We arrived here this morning at about 5 AM. It's hard to imagine that this is still he same day! The flight from la to Lima was nice in that I had lots of space and the A340 was nice and new. I was impressed with the service provided by LAN airlines and would def. recommend. The flight from Lima to here was fine though a teenager kept literally climbing over me to sit next to her boyfriend. And some government person came on and sprayed insecticide when we landed. Odd.

After a crazy and longish taxi ride here, we slept two hours then got up to check if the chief scientist had arrived yet. Long story short... Most of us were no help so I went and had breakfast with postdocs Masha and Jill. The juice here is so delicious and fresh and sweet. I had both pineapple and pear juice (I wasn't called that but it looked and tasted like it). I also had some huevos rancheros, salami, ham, and cheese that looked like mozzarella but Jill said it was queso fresco. I used to get that at wegmans all the time. Note: this is being written on an itouch so I apologize for grammatical errors.

After sleeping for four more hours we got up and showered and finally got a group to go out for food in the city. We found a local place that served us some amazing pisco sours, ceviche, and empanadas (def. the best I've ever had).

We wandered around he market where I bought a towel that wasn't full of scantily-clad women ("yo quiero la toalla con los arboles, por favor").

We returned to the hotel to watch the sunset and get our free pisco sours from he hotel. I got super tired and just came up to write this.

Tomorrow we move onto the ship. Should be interesting. We might be delayed leaving because DHL screwed up a shipment that is still in la. And the water is a bit crazy and there is an issue with getting the crate onto the ship and dealing with customs. All things to figure out tomorrow. Gotta love field work!!

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