Friday, 29 December

Mary and Alberto went early to see the babies.  It is not visitor day, so I can not be included.  It is OK.  I saw plenty of the babies the first few days and I will get to hold them very soon when they come home.  So I started the blog and printed out a few maps and got a bit organized.  Mary's housekeeper, Maria, came today.  She cooked lunch for us!  It was wonderful.  Dark meat chicken pieces (my favorite) and a Peruvian rice mixture.  

So my new Spanish words for the day are muy bien.  this would be in the case where someone asks you how you are:  Muy bien.

and muy rico would be yummy.....
and muy bueno is very good as in something tastes very good.

Mary and Alberto plan to do the Kangaroo this evening, so I plan to go to the mall to do a little shopping.   Mary suggested Real Plaza.  However, she also suggested that it might be packed and jammed as everyone is on holiday!  And it was.

But on the way, I decided to stop at a yarn shop.  (imagine that, huh)  It was close by.  I laughed and laughed at myself at the little adventure that I had.  The yarn shop was not a shop at all.  It was a booth in an open air market in the Lince area of Peru.  I could immediately see that the store was TERRIBLE!  Nothing of any interest at all.....maybe 20 balls of cheap terrible yarn!  I started to tell the driver that I would just change my destination, but then decided to take a look around.  It was actually fun.  It was DEFINITELY NOT touristy.  Only locals anyplace to be seen.  But there was lots of action!





And booth after booth of Yellow underwear in every size and for both sexes.....What the heck is that about?  Alberto and Mary said that it is traditional to wear yellow underwear for New Year's.....but that neither of them do that....but it seems others do wear the gear: