ENTONCES....we have been enjoying our stay in Lima todovia. We finally went outside our upperclass Miraflores neighborhood for some more adventures. We went to Mercado de Inca. It was our first solo mission without Megan. We ended up taking the bus too far, but we only had to backtrack like 8 blocks. The shops were neat -- pretty standard bazaar stuff: Peru earflap hats, Alpaca sweaters, Llama sweaters, bags, earrings, touristy t-shirts, rugs, coasters...basically lots of souvenier type stuff. We were on a mission to find Megan a Fanny because shes come to realize from our example how awesome and useful fannies are. Infact, the fanny is pretty popular here. There's the business fanny, party fanny, gay fanny, designer fanny, casual fanny, nu skool fanny, taz fanny, and the list goes on.... so yeah, fanny in castellano is Kanguru. Go figure. Megan actually found 2 awesome fannies. Marie got cutie earrings and Hannah bought a pouch decorated with farm scenes.
After the market, we couldn´t help ourselves -- we got dinner at El Enano again! Its so good. We wanted to introduce Megan too because they make delicious vegetarian food. That night we went out with Paul and his friend Raffo (ps, this dude had super slicked back hair. think phantom of the opera) to Baranco. A club called El Sargento Pimiento. They were playing a wide variety of music: Garage, Green Day, the Strokes, Blind Melon, Elvis Presley, Bowie, Stones, and a lot of Depeche. you get the idea.
The next day, Friday, we slept in and ate El Enano AGAIN. The juice is just so good, you guys. I cant explain it. Smoothie heaven. Then we went to Lima Centro to check out some sights. We got a sweet s/.5 (thats 5 nuevo soles, or like $2.30) tour around Lima Antiguo and up to the top of Cerro San Cristobal where there is this huge cross and you get a view of all of Lima. The sun was setting so that was cool, but it was kinda hard to see the total city because of all the smog.
But, the BEST part was when we got dropped off at this feria-fiesta in Lima Centro and this guy was doing a Michael Jackson impersonation performance. He was lip syncing really poorly, but he had MOOOOVES. And he kept trying to pump up the crowd saying "i love you" and he kept saying "security" for some reason.
For dinner we grabbed hot dog covered in waffle on a stick in Barrio Chino. Then, we came back to the hostel, caught some music videos on the tube including Dancing in the Streets (how prefect! i bet the peruanos would have recognized us) then went back to the Mercado neighborhood for one of Megan's friends b-day party. It was pretty chill, there was one really really really creepy guy there...but also some sweet dogs.
you ladies are lookin super cute! bring me back an alpaca sweater!
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