Lounging in Lima

And I´m back!!

Now to update you completely. We arrived from Huaraz at about 6 pm on a LONG and windy bus but successfully navigated to our hostel in Miraflores without too much of a hassle! That night we went out for a nice dinner at this tacky Mexican restaurant. It was lonely planet recommended but we were the ONLY ones in the joint. Sketchy but actually pretty tasty. The next morning we awoke too a perpetually cloudy Lima but we were all VERY impressed with how clean and modern Miraflores was. It was like a vacation from a vacation! There were Starbucks´, McDonalds and Chili´s all over the place! The morning of our second day we toured around and did some shopping, bought a latte at Starbucks and generally just enjoyed being back in the 21st century. At 5pm we met up with Matt and 5 other of my med school croonies who are volunteering in Lima for August! It was amazing to see all of them and Carolyn (who you may remember from Quito trivia lore) had organized a big dinner at the SWANKIEST restaurant! It was sooooooo nice and the food was amazing but all in all (drinks, apps and dessert included) cost about 25$ american dollars each. NOT BAD!

The following day Matt was able to get the day off so he spent it with us walking around Miraflores and shopping (much like the day before). We went to the movies in the afternoon and then hit up Chili´s for dinner. Again it was SO nice to just hang out and lounge as if we were back in Canada.

Yesterday was our last full day in Lima and we decided to break out of our shell and head to central Lima which we were all pretty impressed with in the end. We started at Plaza San Martin where there is a statue of a lady that was commissioned to have a crown of flames. Apparently in Spanish the word for flames is ¨llama¨ the same as the word for the animal and without verifying which llama they were asking for, the sculptors built her with a crown of llama animals instead. (I thought it was funny).

We toured the Plaza des Armas and walked along a nice pedestrian street before calling it a day and heading back to our beloved Miraflores. We again trolled the streets and killed some time eating amazing gelato and drinking Starbucks. ahaha Our french friends has arrived that morning so we met up with them in the evening and headed out for a delish dinner before coming back to the hostel for PISCO SOUR NIGHT. We all sampled the local drink which was actually pretty good despite the egg whites and called it a night.

We are off to Huachachina today to go sandboarding in the dessert and I think we are all pretty excited for that! I promise to update you again soon!

Lots of love!
HALS!