Huanchaco!!!

So after a nasty 24 hour bus ride, I finally made it Huachaco, a little fishing and surfing town in the North Coast of Peru. The best way I can describe it is, an isolated Redondo Beach without the crime circa 1970. There are tons of little skaterpunks, and two main brakes. One large left break that can get up to 3 meters when it storms and if better with a short board, and one on the other side of the pier that brakes left but infinately more gently and is perfect for beginners and long boards. I have not tested the water though as I woke up completely covered in bed bug bits, and i mean covered. Everywhere my clothes werent I am biten all over. I am assuming I picked up bedbugs on my sleeping bag on the bus and then slept with it last night and thats where all the bites come from cause no one else in my hotel has any bites, but I am not sure. There is only one way to fidn out. I sent all my clothes to the laundry, showered, put on fresh clothes, and am going to change beds (my room has three beds, owe hot shower, cable TV with remote, and free internet 24 hours, all for six dollars) tonight. I also stocked up with antihistamines and antiitch cream at the pharmacy so hopefully my immune systema nd drugs will win out. If that does not work I am swtiching hostels tomorrow anyway, because as cheap as six dollars a night, I can get my own room next door for three, without TV but who needs TV when you are healthy?
Anyway besides being covered in bites I have had a stellar day. I met up with my friend Sarah-Jane who is volunteering here and had lunch with her Peruvian boyfriend, who is also a chef, yum..... and met his adorable niece who is seven named Fatima. We ended up spending the whole day painting, coloring, and rough housing. It was a blast and really nice to be in a home again and not in a hostel. Actually the family owns a hostel and Fatima pretty much begged me to move in with them. She was ridiculously adorable!!!!
I am going with Sarah-Jane to a school tommorrow to hep build an organic farm and compost system for the school. The school provides some of the children with the only real meal they get each day so its important for us to get a productive farm goign as soon as possible to help them get the nutrients they need and teach them how to garden in their own homes. I am really excited about the project and hopefully will come back and help Sarah-Jane after me, Whiteny, and hopefully Kimber get done trekking to Machu Pichu. Hopefully all three of us can come back here and volunteer, its a pretty chill surf town and really cheap to live here. So everythign is pretty ideal right now for putting down some roots. Plus Sarah is dating a local, Roberto, and that gives us a lot of ins... all in all things look promising.
Canon del Colca was also stunningly beautiful! Spent three days there hiking around with Jimmy, but I will let the pictures speak for themselves...