Monday morning our group flew to Cusco
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Our driver picked us up and managed to get our amazing amount of luggage in the van and we took off for Andenia which is located in the very small town of Calca about an hour and 15 minutes from the airport.
https://www.andenia.pe/location
The photography is amazing in the Sacred Valley. And Andenia may offer the best gardens for photography in the valley.
martes, 12 de noviembre de 2019
Lima 2019
My trip to Peru in 2019 had only the goals of seeing Mary's family and staying in the sacred Valley at Mary's inn: Andenia.
I hope to include on this blog the following:
information about what we did in the Sacred Valley.
Information about Andenia
History of the ruins at Pisca and information and maps of the area....in particular I want to look up pre Inca people and Inca people and mention the pillage of the cemetery at the site
food....food....food...at Mercado 28
I hope to include on this blog the following:
information about what we did in the Sacred Valley.
Information about Andenia
History of the ruins at Pisca and information and maps of the area....in particular I want to look up pre Inca people and Inca people and mention the pillage of the cemetery at the site
food....food....food...at Mercado 28
lunes, 6 de agosto de 2018
Monday, Aug 6th
Tonight is the party at the Market. Mary was up early and left about 9am to go and "put out fires". Many of her tenants are unhappy that the place will open tomorrow as they are not ready. But Mary feels that it is not fair to punish those who are ready to open by remaining closed until everyone is ready. This is to be a soft opening anyway.....A chance for everyone to open and get organized before there is a "grand" opening which may be a while awa
I got my hair done at 9:30 for the party. I think that I will wear one of the new pretty Peruvian sweater/shawls that I bought at the Inka market last week. The invitation says 5:00....but Mary says that this is Peru....that will mean that people might start to arrive by 7 or 8....However, it is just as easy for me to hang out at the Market as here, so I plan to go at 5.
Working on knitting and blog and etc....and hanging out with the boys until then
Mary called mid afternoon and had a few things that she had forgotten to bring. So I got dressed and left via Uber early. It was really fun hanging out watching everyone getting ready for the big event! The website shows a layout of the different "booths" serving food and drink:
https://www.mercado28.pe
Closeup of the mortar and pestle:
The next area was not open but it will be the seafood area:
This is the bar that is in the center of the market area:
Last minute talk to the staff about the evening's responsibilities:
Is this booth going to be ready in time? Definitely on Peruvian time!
and next door to them:
Bar is almost ready:
Food from the Amazon is almost ready:
and then the actual party:
Italian food:
French Pastries:
Gelatto was not yet open, but is ready for the weekend:
Somehow, I did not seem to take a single photo of the actual party....but I'll find some and add them later....but here are a few of me and Mary's buddies:
Partners and staff celebrating at the end of the evening:
Sunday, Aug 5th
I added a few photos that others had taken and am just adding them to this blog post because I like them:
Galileo when he was in the hospital:
Mary had the next one on Tiny Beans with the label: Who put who to sleep?
And Solomon feeding Jack during the Football events:
Mary did not go to work today. So I took Uber to Starbucks and picked up coffees for both of us. We had quite the feast for breakfast as Mary had bought bread from her favorite bread store the day before and had bought my favorite pastry as well. Yummmmm. Alberto had gotten up very early to go with the bicycle group. Mary and I went to Jockey plaza to shop. We were mostly looking for things for the market. It is a huge shopping mall next door to a what looks like a horse racetrack....so I suppose that is why it is called Jockey. It is huge! Grocery store, Sudimac, and store after store. There is an outside area that has upscale shopping. Quite overwhelming. However we could not find the desk chair, candles, nor outdoor cushions that Mary was hoping to find. However, she was quite successful with trash cans a few other things for the market at Sudimac. The driving was unusually easy as it was Sunday and much less traffic.
Paola arrived late last night. Then went with the bicycle group this morning. And she is traveling for work tomorrow. So we had a lunch with Paola, Ulher, and Maria Isabelle. To make life easy for everyone, we ordered in chicken and fries and salad and chinese food as well. Lots of fun.
This evening we celebrated Maria Isabelle's birthday. Her daughter came bringing a cake. And we all had cake for dinner. When the candles were lit, I started singing Happy Birthday in English and then realized I was the wrong language and stopped.....Mary said that I was actually correct. That in Peru you sing Happy Birthday first in English and then you "jazz" it up in Spanish for the second verse. Very fun!
And Fat Cat is still on the poof:
Galileo when he was in the hospital:
Mary had the next one on Tiny Beans with the label: Who put who to sleep?
And Solomon feeding Jack during the Football events:
Mary did not go to work today. So I took Uber to Starbucks and picked up coffees for both of us. We had quite the feast for breakfast as Mary had bought bread from her favorite bread store the day before and had bought my favorite pastry as well. Yummmmm. Alberto had gotten up very early to go with the bicycle group. Mary and I went to Jockey plaza to shop. We were mostly looking for things for the market. It is a huge shopping mall next door to a what looks like a horse racetrack....so I suppose that is why it is called Jockey. It is huge! Grocery store, Sudimac, and store after store. There is an outside area that has upscale shopping. Quite overwhelming. However we could not find the desk chair, candles, nor outdoor cushions that Mary was hoping to find. However, she was quite successful with trash cans a few other things for the market at Sudimac. The driving was unusually easy as it was Sunday and much less traffic.
Paola arrived late last night. Then went with the bicycle group this morning. And she is traveling for work tomorrow. So we had a lunch with Paola, Ulher, and Maria Isabelle. To make life easy for everyone, we ordered in chicken and fries and salad and chinese food as well. Lots of fun.
This evening we celebrated Maria Isabelle's birthday. Her daughter came bringing a cake. And we all had cake for dinner. When the candles were lit, I started singing Happy Birthday in English and then realized I was the wrong language and stopped.....Mary said that I was actually correct. That in Peru you sing Happy Birthday first in English and then you "jazz" it up in Spanish for the second verse. Very fun!
And Fat Cat is still on the poof:
domingo, 5 de agosto de 2018
Saturday, Aug 4th
Mary went to work this morning to take care of a few last minute chores. So I hung out with Maria Isabelle and the boys. After lunch I suggested a walk on the malecon as that is what Esther usually does. 
We finished the pouf tonight! It was a huge project. Where do you find the filling? So, Alberto thought that he knew the best place to look and he was willing to drive us there which was huge! Maybe 30 minutes through CRAZY traffic both ways. He is a nice man. When we finally arrived. Mary and I spent silly amounts of time deciding which filling to use. Alberto had been right. This was the right place to find the filling. PHOOEY! We made final decisions only to find out that they were out of the filling we wanted. But luckily the woman helping us went to someone above her. And the person above her was good. She explained that the filling that made sense was in the already made poufs on the floor. And indeed the poufs on the floor had the right amount of firmness to suit what we were thinking. So for half the price we bought an already made pouf and took it home. So we stuffed THE pouf with the new poof and then put the stuffing that we had on hand all around it until you couldn't see the store-bought pouf. Mary had the patience of Job...she kept stuffing it just a little more...and then I sewed it up. It was just as imagined. EXCEPT it was too big for the baby's room.
But the babies did like it:
So we put it temporarily in the main room by the window to decide what to do next. And FAT CAT has been there ever since. It is his new home. Every time that I walk by the room....Fat Cat is asleep on the poof!
But then about Monday, Fat Cat had lost interest and Sammy tried it out:
We finished the pouf tonight! It was a huge project. Where do you find the filling? So, Alberto thought that he knew the best place to look and he was willing to drive us there which was huge! Maybe 30 minutes through CRAZY traffic both ways. He is a nice man. When we finally arrived. Mary and I spent silly amounts of time deciding which filling to use. Alberto had been right. This was the right place to find the filling. PHOOEY! We made final decisions only to find out that they were out of the filling we wanted. But luckily the woman helping us went to someone above her. And the person above her was good. She explained that the filling that made sense was in the already made poufs on the floor. And indeed the poufs on the floor had the right amount of firmness to suit what we were thinking. So for half the price we bought an already made pouf and took it home. So we stuffed THE pouf with the new poof and then put the stuffing that we had on hand all around it until you couldn't see the store-bought pouf. Mary had the patience of Job...she kept stuffing it just a little more...and then I sewed it up. It was just as imagined. EXCEPT it was too big for the baby's room.
But the babies did like it:
So we put it temporarily in the main room by the window to decide what to do next. And FAT CAT has been there ever since. It is his new home. Every time that I walk by the room....Fat Cat is asleep on the poof!
But then about Monday, Fat Cat had lost interest and Sammy tried it out:
viernes, 3 de agosto de 2018
Friday, Aug 3
Alberto had a meeting this morning and Mary is working. I chose to stay here and hang out with babies. Mary invited me to go with her to buy a few things for the Market, but even though Mary traded cars with Alberto, she and Carito need as much space as possible to carry back their purchase.
My favorite thing to do with the twins is what I consider exercise time. I put both babies down on the mat on their stomachs.....Galileo likes it for a while. He is very close to crawling as he gets up on hands and knees and practices. Today for the first time he actually went forward a bit to try to get to the toys that I had put just out of his reach. Jack likes to be on his stomach very briefly. Pretty much the first thing he does is turn over on this back.
These are excellent photos to point out Galileo's most unusual hair style. No one combs it this way....it is natural....It grows back away from his face and swirls...
After playtime and lunch, Esther took the boys on a walk in the park and then bath time. I entertained the child who was not being bathed. Then gave Jack his MILK....yea for MILK...and put him to bed for afternoon nap.
Perfect timing as Mary called to have me join her for lunch and hang out at the market. Lunch was fun. We ate across the street from the market at Tanta. It is a restaurant serving Peruvian food. Mary told a great story while we were ordering. The owner who is known to everyone as Gaston (accent over the "o"). Mary says he is as famous as the president or a football player in Peru. He went to Paris to study law in the 80s or 90s as he was from a wealthy family that was involved in politics. Soon he dropped out and began taking cooking classes. And then met a young woman who is a pastry chef. The couple married. After learning to cook in Paris, the couple moved back to Lima and opened a Frence Restaurant. Mary said at the time all of the wealthy people in the city went to French Restaurants in that era. But Gaston became interested in serving Peruvian food. And has become famous for being the person who raised Peruvian food to the place that it now holds. He has several restaurants. Some more fancy than the one we ate at today. But Mary says she is not a big fan of his fancy restaurants. She prefers the Tanta where we ate today. Mary's business partners, Michel and Michael, worked for Gaston.
Lunch was wonderful! We celebrated Friday by drinking a maracuya sour....yummmmmm
Then we went across the street to Mary's market! Oh, WOW! Busy place as everyone tried to finish things up in anticipation of being open on Monday.
The neighborhood: Restaurants, traffic and the big new hotel going in next door. It is a member of the Aloft group
On the way the traffic was heavy giving me a chance to take a photo from the road along the shore. You can see way up on top of the cliff the area in which Mary lives. It is along the Malecon.
My favorite thing to do with the twins is what I consider exercise time. I put both babies down on the mat on their stomachs.....Galileo likes it for a while. He is very close to crawling as he gets up on hands and knees and practices. Today for the first time he actually went forward a bit to try to get to the toys that I had put just out of his reach. Jack likes to be on his stomach very briefly. Pretty much the first thing he does is turn over on this back.
These are excellent photos to point out Galileo's most unusual hair style. No one combs it this way....it is natural....It grows back away from his face and swirls...
After playtime and lunch, Esther took the boys on a walk in the park and then bath time. I entertained the child who was not being bathed. Then gave Jack his MILK....yea for MILK...and put him to bed for afternoon nap.
Perfect timing as Mary called to have me join her for lunch and hang out at the market. Lunch was fun. We ate across the street from the market at Tanta. It is a restaurant serving Peruvian food. Mary told a great story while we were ordering. The owner who is known to everyone as Gaston (accent over the "o"). Mary says he is as famous as the president or a football player in Peru. He went to Paris to study law in the 80s or 90s as he was from a wealthy family that was involved in politics. Soon he dropped out and began taking cooking classes. And then met a young woman who is a pastry chef. The couple married. After learning to cook in Paris, the couple moved back to Lima and opened a Frence Restaurant. Mary said at the time all of the wealthy people in the city went to French Restaurants in that era. But Gaston became interested in serving Peruvian food. And has become famous for being the person who raised Peruvian food to the place that it now holds. He has several restaurants. Some more fancy than the one we ate at today. But Mary says she is not a big fan of his fancy restaurants. She prefers the Tanta where we ate today. Mary's business partners, Michel and Michael, worked for Gaston.
Lunch was wonderful! We celebrated Friday by drinking a maracuya sour....yummmmmm
Then we went across the street to Mary's market! Oh, WOW! Busy place as everyone tried to finish things up in anticipation of being open on Monday.
The neighborhood: Restaurants, traffic and the big new hotel going in next door. It is a member of the Aloft group
On the way the traffic was heavy giving me a chance to take a photo from the road along the shore. You can see way up on top of the cliff the area in which Mary lives. It is along the Malecon.
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