Impulse Trip to Machu Picchu

Date: 5/25/2021

My friends and I all impulse-decided to visit Machu Picchu in Peru even though we were all seriously broke. It was already like 5 PM and we were able to charter a small private plane over there for much cheaper than a commercial flight. It was me and three others, I can't remember who but two of them were girls I knew from high school. The flight was only about 2 hours. We decided to stay there overnight because it was already so late in the day to go there. When we arrived I noticed we were in Lima, while we were supposed to go to Cuzco. (I looked this up afterwards and it's true. I don't know how my sleeping brain knew this???). We weren't really able to afford a hotel so we had to perform in order to earn money. Everyone there wanted to make fun of American culture. We were asked to act like different stereotypes on stage for everyone's entertainment. For example, we were handed a paper where the audience requested us to act like guidos from Jersey Shore. We went up there and started dancing badly, pretending we had hats on, fist pumping, etc. We earned some money this way. We got to a hotel and while we waited for our room, everyone put all their stuff just on the main staircase, like bags and suitcases and clothes just piled around on the stairs. We went to the hotel's restaurant. At this point my boyfriend texted me asking what I was up to. I was waiting for this moment, I wanted to drop so casually that I was literally in Peru, and see how he reacted. I texted at first, "Just out getting food and drinks rn" and sent it with a geotag saying that we were in Lima, Peru. Finally everyone went to our hotel room. It was really late at this point. I went back and started grabbing my bags and staff from the hotel told me that if my friends didn't get their stuff within the next few minutes, it would all be disposed of. I went and told everyone and they reluctantly got up to get their stuff off the main stairs.