We arrived in Peru close to midnight on August 10, and we spent the week acclimating: to the altitude (5,000+ feet), but more importantly to our new way of life - a life without set schedules or specific places to be.
Those first seven days we strolled the coastline, played in a downtown park overrun by felines, saw a fascinating (and somewhat odd) water show...and we even started a homeschool regimen (albeit a loose one), with the younger two kids learning basic math skills and the older two a their course in geometry.