all right 3 30 in the morning we booked a taxi now usually we would use uber but we figured if
an uber doesn't come at 3 30 in the morning we're in deep doo-doo so taxi to the airport dude bungie
so ivan is still waking up because she went to bed yeah but i did not sleep
even for one minute in fact i didn't even try to sleep were you too excited too excited and
uh honestly it's a five hour flight so we'll get there at like noon and all sleep tomorrow
all right first pop quiz of the day guess the population of peru
three million i was gonna say four and a half we'll write the actual answer on the bottom
right so in classic jet lag warriors fashion we are here as early as you possibly could be here
three and a half hours before the flight time although this time we found a really nice game
to play as we're in line we look at all the people in line in front of us and we guess
this person's peruvian this person's brazilian these people are peruvian and then when they get
to the front of the line and they pull out their passport we take a peek and we cash in our pets
so uh ivana was a grand champion today i was pretty bad at guessing peruvian or brazilian
but anyway next stop will be in the air let's go
yeah that's what i'm talking about
big plane lots of people yeah full a full plane actually we walk through first class
one day one day we'll be there no we won't okay time for nap bye-bye
so far so good big clean organized and i will say my uh my border guard was super nice guy
and i purposely said bregado and i said oh gracias then he laughed oh nice moment
shout out okay here we go
there's our guy there so we actually booked a uh my friend yeah yeah amigo
so we actually booked a ride from accommodation because we didn't want
to evolve over here oh you see there fantastic regatta hola speaking hola no speaking english
okay i'm wondering if we later can stop to an atm to get money
okay okay yeah one moment okay right here okay yeah because our uh our bank cards
my card and your card on two different machines in the uh airport airport where no bueno
so shout out to peru a bit of a rough start two cards two machines four attempts no cash but he'll
don't take us to a bank uh no problemo i'm excited dude i'm excited you're one team i'm pure excited
you're excited yeah we flew with these uh blue shirts they're uh i think a swimming team from
brazil coming to compete for uh south america swimming championships go brazil you're in peru
all right first eyes on lima so first things first the sky is genuinely all white it's not
my camera playing tricks on you i guess it's cloudy today it's also pretty hot
and uh we got this wicked van here with the nice kovid divider
and stores staying safe with our driver paolo and we're going to our hotel
all right lucky us we found a scotia bank so we've pulled off the side of the road here and
i'm just sitting in the van ivana is in the scotiabank hopefully solving a big problem
because we went to two or three banks and my card wasn't working johanna's card wasn't working
and then he finally got a text message saying there was some fraud on her account which is
pretty bad timing because we're in a brand new country with zero of local currency so hopefully
the fraud thing can get figured out and she can solve that i will say the covid restrictions are
pretty intense here so when you're outside like outdoors you need not one but two masks
also to get in the bank you need proof of vaccination and there's a limit on how many
people can go in the bank so that's the reason i'm not in the bank with ivana is because we'd be
literally taking someone else's spot and even if there was an open teller no one could use
the teller because two people ivan and i would be at one teller so we heard the word fraud and i was
pretty nervous but hopefully ivana will come out of the bank here
in a minute with some good news and maybe some money
uh good news and money these are the two things we're going for now oof rough start in peru
all right so yesterday was a total disaster uh ivana's card has in fact been compromised and it
is deleted uh we called the bank and they said have you been buying pizza in canada yesterday
no have you been ordering ubereats in canada today no so there was like five or six transactions and
ivana's card is finished yeah so then we called the bank about my card and originally they told me
same thing they said it was fraud we went through the transactions and it turns out not fraud
it just triggered fraud because we bought something in rio de janeiro
three days ago sao paulo yes two days ago and then peru yesterday so three different cities
in three days triggered the fraud okay so we have good news yesterday we think okay my car
is going to work let's go out draw some money uh why not withdraw some money still not working
come back to the hotel call the bank again and it's just a comedy of errors so we called the bank
and they said we have lots of calls right now why don't we call you back the problem is they can't
call us back we don't have a cell phone number we're calling from skype yeah meanwhile our skype
balance is going down with every call and once it reaches zero we can call we can't recharge it
so we're like oh so finally we get a hold of the bank and uh believe it or not my card is broken
the chip on my card is malfunctioned it's broken on the same day that ivana's card is deleted
so they said maybe you can clean the chip and try again i said listen man
the first thing i thought of when you said clean the chip should i lick it and put in the machine
and he said i cannot advise you to lick the card and put in the machine
i said all right so we went around another round of atms and tried every atm in the city and
does not work so because of all the calling the bank and then trying all the atms i call in the
bank uh we arrived at like 10 am or 10 30 am yesterday and by about 4 or 5 p.m we realized
we had no debit cards we had no credit cards we had no way to get money so this is why we
had to cancel the vlog yesterday there was a lot of this happening in our hotel room oh
what a day oh we got no money
we need some money
oh gosh hopefully it will get better from here steve
hopefully someone just bring some peruvian food and put it in my mouth for free i need the food
we did have the bright idea of searching our backpack for any extra money we had we
found some brazilian money obviously we found some argentinian pesos we couldn't find any colombia we
did find some american dollars so we were able to get one cooked chicken you know the cooked chicken
in the plastic i think everything every rotisserie chicken at the grocery store we were able to get
one of those and we paid for it with american dollars i'm not sure what exactly happened but
she took the money and put it like beside the cash register and just let us go maybe she'll take the
money in her pocket and pay later i'm not sure we just like begging her like we need something
we have no money so we ended up paying like five american dollars for a rotisserie chicken
which leads us to today still no money no cards no way to get money
yeah totally stranded luckily at this very table this morning we had breakfast that's true so we
had an instant coffee with a boiled egg and a bun breakfast comes with our hotel room thank goodness
for that yeah now we did send ourselves some money on western union but we cannot retrieve the money
until tomorrow because today is sunday right so i think today we'll only eat the breakfast yep
i think we have some granola bars that are left over from meadow five countries ago the leftover
chicken we have from yesterday we picked the bones but basically we're not going to eat today and
fingers crossed for western union tomorrow or else we are in a deep deep trouble of a
situation so to be clear it's not peru's fault we're not suggesting
you know anyone's fault but our own yeah we've been traveling so long that my credit card expired
and yvonne's debit card expired yeah so ivana had
credit and i had debit we had one of each but together we had the debit and credit
uh but on the exact same day my card broke and ifana's card was hacked or stolen or something
so we are really looking forward to uh in like three or four days we'll meet up with a group
called the wi-fi artist yeah this is like an online collaboration where a bunch of youtubers
and other content creators are getting together in a co-living space it's all paid for it's all
organized we'll meet a bunch of people and at the very least we can paypal one of them money the
people that we meet paypal them and they can withdraw and give it to us right but as of
right now we have no money today and we have no food so we're gonna try and go out and explore
lima although keep in mind our energy reserves are low
that's true maybe we won't explore maybe we'll just end the vlog right now
yeah maybe maybe we'll just end it right now and we'll say guys tomorrow we'll start a new
vlog tomorrow yes and we'll say fingers crossed at western union if western union says your money did
not transfer properly or if something didn't work we're in a deep pickle we have to start asking
people on the street can i pay pal you money can you give me some money because our bank accounts
have money in them but the access cards or the credit cards to get the money is uh not working
so probably the worst start to a new country we've ever had certainly the worst argument has ever had
oh yeah i think so this is the worst we got no money we got no money i mean we have money in
our bank account but no wait no way to access the money there you have it guys uh shout out to peru
we like with what we've seen of lima seems nice yeah we're staying in a neighborhood called mila
it was like an art show there was like a chest the whole chest
a strip where everyone's playing youtube and i'm like so can i play some chess no yeah just five
five local currency games like american dollar or something like that per game and i don't have one
american dollar they're like just one game one dollar i'm like i don't even have that
so i've watched them play chess like this oh i'm so hungry but i think we're done for today
i guess we're not gonna go explore really we can't do anything yeah we can't even buy one
coffee all right we'll see you in the next video we'll start the video from western
union it'll start on a high or it'll start on a catastrophic low we'll see all right what to say
alrighty i'm hungry see you guys