How much fun are you allowed to have on a mission trip? Today we got up in Nazca, ate breakfast, and started back to Ica. It was our day off so we went at it at a more relaxed pace. Some of the group wanted to go fly over the Nazca Lines but after waiting around the trip got more and more expensive and in the end they weren't able to got without reservations. One of the tiny women in the group thought she was going to be able to fit into another group but they boarded the plane and it wouldn't start. Sort of telling on the quality of the equipment, I thought.

Just before Ica we got to an oasis in the desert where we stopped for lunch and then we rode in a dune buggy!!!! The dunes were beautiful in the sunshine. It reminded me of the movie English Patient. The ripples of the sand and the waves on it's surface were lovely. We zipped and roared over the sand like a roller coaster. After awhile we stopped and some of us sledded down the dune on a wake board. We laid on our stomachs and went flying down the hills. It was exhilarating! My heart pumped hard and I laid there and just laughed at the bottom. It felt so good to just be free and let go after feeling kind of couped up because we have to be so careful to never walk alone. A good roll in the sand is good for the soul.