Ted made it to Peru in one piece!

Okay so this isn't a normal post... ya know.. the kind with tons of pictures of our son doing cool stuff.

I decided to just post up here Ted's initial e-mail to me to let me know that he made it to Peru okay. Don't worry, it's not to mushy and mostly informative. He hasn't sent any pictures yet, so I'll just throw on a few of Lucas just cuz.

TED'S EMAIL:

Hey honey,

I found an internet cafe across the street from the place that I am staying
- right now the internet at the house is broken and hopefully will be up
tonight. I enjoyed reading your email- I miss you guys very much.

Cusco is kinda like walking in the bad part of Bogota. The city feels the
same, with honking cars, random walkers, street venders, mountains all
around us. Its nice to be back in this part of the world - but difficult
without my two favorite people.

I landed in Lima around 12AM and got through customs about an hour later.
The plane from Miami to Lima was the biggest plane I have ever been on! It
was like riding in a huge limo, only with screaming children running down
the isles. I was able to talk with an older Peruvian woman and a young
Peruvian guy through some broken english-spanish. It worked, but a lot of
charades.

Overnight was a little rough. I slept for about 2 hours at the check in
because I couldn´t actually re-check my bags until 4 AM, and they were
cleaning the floors in the area I was trying to sleep in. I finally put my
feet up on my equipaje and tilted my hat down to get some broken sleep.

The flight here went fine - I slept the entire way. I totally missed the
breakfast, but when I got to the casa Haydee had breakfast waiting for me.
She is great and is very helpful and patient with me. We talked about all
sorts of stuff this morning. Her family, my family (she loves the pictures
of Lucas), what Cusco is like, how I should get around, planning a trip to
Macchu Picchu over my last weekend. I was quite surprised that we were able
to communicate so well seeing that she knows almost no english. But we did
fine.

I´m spending the day getting accostomed to the city, and figuring out where
to go. Dr. Divertie called this AM to see if I made it ok. I may be able to
talk with you at some point as Haydee has a calling card, but I didnt quite
get the details of that.

I love you and I´ll check as often as I can."


So that's what we know about Ted so far folks!!! Sounds like he's doing well. Lucas and I are hanging in there. The goals while Ted is gone are pretty simple: get up,let out dog, get ready, get baby, feed baby, get in car, get to Mallorys, deposit baby, drive to work, do work, drive to Mallory's to get baby, drive home,let out dog, feed baby, play with baby, bath baby, bottle baby, put baby in crib, go back in 10 minutes later to lay him back down, turn off all lights in the house and ignore him, go back to lay him down again (3rd time usually works), write Ted email, deal with house and life, bed.

That's what we will do pretty much every day that Ted is gone! So far its working out, but I'm pretty pooped. Not gonna lie. Lucas is into everything and doesn't like to be apart from mama by more than 2 feet.

Hope you are all doing well and I will close with some videos of about the house events.