Iquitos and Caimiri floating hostel

So to start off our hostel in Iquitos is absolutely amazing, as you can see from my Facebook picture.  It is dirty and outdoors and very local.  At night it becomes a bar and attracts the locals.  We were picked up from the airport by Lissandro, a guy from Argentina who is working at Caimiri after he came here as a traveller.  He is very nice and speaks decent English so it was super helpful.  He has been helping me with my Spanish which isnt doing so bad here.  I'm understanding quite a bit but when I comes to speaking it can go bad.  When we arrived we met Marcel the hostel owner and checked into our room.  The weather here is very hot and very humid so different from Washington, and it took some getting used to.  The bugs aren't so bad here on the outskirts of the Amazon but we have seen our fair share of enlarged cockroaches and beetles.   We started getting to know everyone here and established a motley crew of people.  We're quite the eclectic international bunch. The three of us are representing America, Sandro and Betsey a Peruvian brother and sister who are now from Miami, Matt the Aussie and his friend Fernando from Colombia, and two Germans Harry and Mike. We spent a good amount of time at Caimiri before going out splitting bottles of red wine with locals, our hostel owner, and our new friends Fernando knew of a few good places to go out so we went to an outdoor concert venue and danced to a Peruvian boy band.  We split a cooler of beers and when we wanted to dance we would form a circle around our cooler on the dance floor.  I guess this is totally normal and we were not the only ones enjoying constantly cold cervesas. We went to a salsa club for late night dancing and just all had a blast together. We got back to the hostel at like 4:30 and waited up for the sunrise.  I made it just for the beginning before I had to go to sleep but really enjoyed the late night conversations.  Lizzy and Lo made it up for the whole thing and got some amazing photographs. We spent today laying in hammocks, reading, and hanging out with our group.  We went out for a really great lunch today and loved the air conditioning the restaurant provided.  Lauren had Papas a la Huancaina, I had Lomo Saltado, and Lizzy had fish with cream sauce.  All were traditional Peruvian dishes and I can't wait to try more.   We are heading back to the same outdoor area again tonight because it is supposed to be a better night.  I'm excited, since last night was unbelievable.  It's nice that we found a little group, we feel a lot safer and connected.  Iquitos is great but a little sketchy at times.