San Salvador Airport

My computer keeps having random things on the internet that are written in Spanish and I don't know what half of them mean. I better get used to it, though! I'm sure I'll catch up on my spanish soon enough once I'm surrounded by it, especially if people stop speaking so fast like they do on the airplane. Combined with the roar of the engine, I couldn't even understand the English they were saying, let alone the Spanish, on my first leg of my trip. I'm in the San Salvador airport now for a seven hour layover. At least we found free wireless and my computer's not acting up. Taking turns sleeping and computering/watching our bags. One hour down, six to go until we're off for a four and a half hour flight to Lima. It's just as much time today waiting at airports as it is flying... a couple months ago, they cancelled the original flight (with less of a layover) and stuck us on the much later flight. Then we get to the airport today and there is a flight leaving in an hour for Lima with space on it (same airline, so I don't get why they didn't switch us to that one instead of the later one)... but we didn't switch to that one because it would have cost a bunch of money and been a pain with luggage and our airport ride and all that. So here I am, wasting time away.
The first leg of the flight was pretty good, uneventful. Slept a bit and talked to the guy who sat in between Abby and I (we didn't sit next to each other because neither of us wanted a middle seat).. He was just a year or two older and was going to Peru too, but had gotten some other flight with a connection through Costa Rica after El Salvador. He had the travel bug also and we were talking about wanting to visit all of the continents and just traveling in general, so that was fun. Just Australia and Antartica left for me and I'll have all the continents down. If Israel counts as being in Asia, that is. He was going to hike to Inca Trail at Macchu Picchu, which I definitely want to do someday but I'm sure it's really intense hiking in that altitude and I just don't have enough time this time, with just a short weekend for there including traveling time. I'm sure it'll be worth going back there sometime in the future and backpacking around more. Maybe after graduation.
Well, not much exciting has happened yet. It's pretty hot in the airport here, jeans definitely aren't the most comfortable thing to be wearing. It's really pretty and green outside, I wish I could go out there and explore, but supposedly it isn't safe near the airport and it also would be complicated with going through customs and all that when we really aren't staying here. Oh well, the time will pass eventually and then I'll finally be in Peru! :)

After spending five hours in the San Salvador airport, I think it's the best airport I've ever been in.
- free wifi
- free computers to use if you don't have one
- 4 free nintendo ds to play with
- free alcohol (sample cups of baileys)
- a store called "tienda libre" (free store)... though that isn't free
-giant boxes of cigarettes saying that smoking kills in HUGE letters
:)