Well, Nelton and I have been back in Iquitos now for a few days, working like crazy on wedding stuff. It's been crazy as we are still uncertain as to what we are to really be doing.
We are getting along great, but see cultural misunderstanding regularly, which really just makes us laugh. For example, we decided we would get matching wedding rings here in Peru, as that is the custom of the land. So we popped into a jeweler to check out the options. I found the perfect rings in all of 5 minutes, Nelton liked them too.
After we decided on them and to my confusion, we left the store. We walked like five steps and I was like, "dude! We are only in the city for two more weeks and we get married in a month. We should get the rings ordered today." Thinking they would take a couple weeks at the least before they came in, as that is how it is in the States. We had changed money that day, but had other plans of how to use it. He said something about that, but I insisted it wasn't a big deal as I thought we would pay for the rings when we picked them up.
We went back to the store, the sweet man named Nelton, complying to my desire. But to my surprise after the lady sized us for the rings, she wrote up a slip, and Nelton had to pay for it all same day we ordered. Opps, my bad, so much for the other (and probably more important plan) Then I was absolutely shocked when the woman said they would be ready the next day!! I laughed so hard when we left, talk about totally not the cultural norm. It was quite funny. Here I thought we needed time for the rings, as we need time for everything else in Peru, but this is the one thing that only takes a day. We both had a laugh about it as he thought I knew it would be that quick.
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