Bienvenidos... Por serio (April 10)

 

So last night we basically passed out, but so far Lima has treated us well. I woke up to a jolly [and exceptionally attractive] half-naked Australian asking me how I slept. Awesome. Our hostel, Dragonfly, serves homemade jam and coffee, so we enjoyed a quick breakfast and headed out into the Miraflores District. We found a church nearby, Iglesias Medalla Milagrosa, which also operates a cat adoption service out of its premises. Obviously, EmBoss was obsessed with all the kitties lounging about the church and neighboring Parque Kennedy.

We then decided to walk down to the PacificOcean, receiving a mere three whistles and a couple "hola señoritas". It was foggy yet so beautiful, looking eerily similar to Santa Monica, minus the homeless folk and litter on the street. We enjoyed an early lunch/brunch of atùn, patitas fritas, and aguacate. ¡Què deliciosa!

We realized our hostel was muy cerca del Choco Museo, so we took French-native Vincent's offer of cacao tea (uh-mazing), tried several pisco infusions, and took an extraordinarily in depth guided tour of the manufacturing of chocolate, which we realized was entirely due to the fact that we are two fairly attractive young females. I wish is could bottle up the scents wafting about the Choco Museo!

We returned back to our hostel where we socialized with out dorm-mates (a Canadian guy, an Australian surfer dude, and two Dutch girls) and rest up before heading out to the Huaca Pucllana tomb. We arrived at HP only to realize it closed in an hour so we decided to return back tomorrow.mon our way back to the hostel we stopped by Metro supermercado for some fresh bread, cheese and empanadas. We ate on the rooftop of our hostel and made plans to have some of our own hostel's brew that evening with some of our fellow travelers.

Hasta luego,

EmBoss