Monday November 5, 2013
Today we were suppose to do a bike tour, but it got cancelled due to road construction. I think it'd be pretty useful to have a road to bike on. So instead we walked down the street to grab a little breakfast. An Arabic owned Peru place. Weird to see Arabic food items offered as well. Anyway, they're really big on juice here. Freshly squeezed juice. "Jugo" So juice and an empenadas! 
We then walked to the mall just 2 short blocks away and which just happens to be overlooking the ocean beach front. How pretty is that?
We continued to walk along the overlook to the love park. Yes it's called the love park. And the statue that's in it happen to be two people making out. How appropriate. We saw a lot of exercise equipment on the way. Outdoor gyms. It was almost like muscle beach in Venice California, but it's just missing buff people.
We walked some more and checked out one of their local grocery stores. It seriously looked like whole food, wegmans and Harris teeter put together. The only differences is that everything is in Spanish, they love 3 liter bottles and there's a dog that's inside barking at customers walking in. Maybe it's a security dog, who knows. But it's good to know I can get my normal cereal and snacks if need be.
Then we walked all the way to the ruins. Let me tell you, it's random. A random pile of ruins in the middle of the city, or rather a city built around a pile of ruins. Our tour guide was cool, and we ended up getting our own little private tour. We learned that these ruins were pre inca days, why it was built and local burial rituals. We also got to see llamas and alpacas. So cute. I want to take one home with me.
Afterwards, Theresa insisted we go to #1 place on trip advisor to eat, but it was closed on Mondays. So instead we went to the #2 suggested place to eat, which so happens to be a sushi restaurant called Edo. I know what you're thinking. Sushi? In South America? Let me tell you, I'm going to rate it top 5 sushi places that I have eaten at. It was good!!! Don't ask me what we orders. We just asked "que es muy bueno?" And he pointed out 4 and we just said si si!
Afterwards, we got picked up by another tour. This time to check out downtown Lima and museums. We went to museo de San Francisco, where there's a ton of wonderful paintings and artifacts and the kicker.. Catacumbs. Underground burial sites. Saw real skulls and bones. Kinda creepy. The pigeons outside the museum were fun. It reminded me a place in Venice Italy I always see pictures of with all the pigeons around. Anyway, it was fun running in the middle like a crazy tourist. That's how I do. We also went to this Spanish hotel and on the roof there was a peacock and turtles trying to hump. Entertaining. Haha
Some other notable places in downtown Lima was this one street with all this shopping! Cheap! So cheap. I wish I could buy it all, but no way am I backpacking with that stuff. If only it was last city I was visiting, I could create a new bag to check in but I'm only 2 days into my trip and I want to shop? Bad Annie. Haha. All these shoes 39 sols= 12.99 US dollars. Clothes were like 10 sols etc. Man, I would love to shop. And speaking of downtown stuff... Street food. There was a vendor selling churros and empenadas for 1 sol. 1 usd=2.77 sol. (Remember that conversion for future references) so basically it's 30 cents for an empenada!!!!! I could eat 10 of those. I know, I know. Be careful of street food. I have a food stomach for those kinda things, so it's not going to stop me:)
At night we roamed the streets near our town in Mira Flores. Went to a "hole in the wall place." What we do is we walk and walk until we find a whiteboard with Spanish scribbles as the menu and a slightly happening place. (If people are eating there, it's got to be decent right? Haha) Eating with Theresa has been hilarious. Her Spanish is decent for being here in south america for a month prior. She can ask how much things are, ask for directions, and order food. Well, for the most part. She can order it but the problem is we have no idea what were ordering. In this area you get an appetizer and an entree for 10 sols. That's about 3 dollars. Crazy right!? so they usually come up to us, blabber in Spanish and we just smile and say si si! Dos por favor! Hahaha. Luckily we are open minded. She handed us a plate of potatoes and salad and some creamy sauce as our app, and for the entree I pointed out some guys plate who was sitting nearby me. "Que es (points to his plate) ? And I nod my head for that plate. Haha. They always give us this drink which reminds me of the dessert drink or whatever drink they give you at a Korean restaurant after your meal. Not too fond of it, but I suppose when you are thirsty, you'll try and drink anything.
Afterwards, we went to find a bar that had pisco sour. It's their specialty cocktail drink here in Peru. Some sort of liquor made from grapes. Maybe we went to an expensive place, but it was 24 sols per drink. That's more than both our dinners combined earlier! I got mango and she got passionfruit or something. Basically, it's "jugo" smoothie with liquor. Haha. Very strong. No me gusta. Maybe I'll try a different flavor next time.
We walked a lot tonight. Theresa has a pedometer and we tracked about 28000 steps. Every 10000 is 5 miles. So that was about 14 miles of walking! Ugh. We need to save it for Machu Picchu. Haha.
Tomorrow: sandboarding
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