Keeping Clean

this is how the nuns did their laundry

Keeping clean is hard to do on this trip because when we need clean clothes it can be hard to find laundry places (lavanderias). The first time we tried to do our laundry was in La Serena. When we were out looking for a place we found one, but when we gave the ladies who worked there our laundry, they said that it would cost 30,000 pesos (60 dollars) to do our laundry. We thought it was pretty expensive! The next time we tried to do laundry was in our apartment in Iquique, because the website said that you could do your laundry but you couldn’t. After we had to haul our dirty clothes over the border we got to wash them in Arequipa. It was the most successful because it only cost 54 soles (only 18 dollars). Although even that was a bit funny because the hostel we were staying at said that if we walked our laundry it would be less money than them driving the laundry there. But, it still cost the same amount after walking across town with our big heavy dirty clothes bags, and it was kind of hard.

Our next expedition was trying to find bath towels because the apartment in Cusco that we are staying in didn’t provide any. None of us have taken a shower in a couple of days so we are kind of desperate for the towels. Today my mom, my brother and I went out to find some towels but we couldn’t find any, but we did get some horrible broccoli. Later today my whole family and I went out to look for a big market. We had been walking for an hour but we couldn’t find the market. When we were walking our long walk back we did find some towels. They cost a little bit more money than we expected, 52 soles in all (17 dollars) for two towels. But now we can take a shower. YAY!!