I don´t want to make this too confusing, but I am going to blog about the events of today, as well, so that I don´t fall behind of what we have done so far.
Today, we got up at a leisurely 9 a.m., and had breakfast in the hostel (bread, tea, coffee). At around 11 a.m., we went souvenir shopping. At noon, we met up with Garth, Rachel, Erin, Scott, and Rose for lunch, and we ended up going to an Irish pub (The Real McCoy) because they wanted some safe food, following the Inca trail. I had a spinach pancake stuffed with chicken, bacon, and mayo, that was fantastic. A lot of the group got bangers and mash, staying true to their former Commonwealth tastes.
Evan and I hung out at the marketplace for an hour while Everett made a phone call to Kristy, and we tried a couple new types of fruit and chocolate. Around 3 p.m., our friends met up with us, and we introduced them to the especial juice mix, much to the delight of the woman at the juice stand, the same one from which we had gotten the juice the day before the Inca trail. I also saw some dried llama fetus, which is used for offerings to Pacha Mama, llama nose for consumption, some large animal testicles, and some love potions.
We spent the afternoon taking care of internet business (blogging for me) and we went to dinner in Plaza de Armas. We have become very comfortable with picking the corner where we can get tons of people working at restaurants to compete for our business, offering free salad bars or free pisco sours. Tonight, I had a pisco sour, Creole soup, alpaca steak with veggies and fried potatoes, ice cream, and chicha morada for S/20 ($6.67). We are definitely going to miss being in Cusco.
Tomorrow we have a noon flight to Lima, and then a midnight flight to Atlanta, so hopefully we will have a couple hours to explore Lima and catch some nice meals before we leave Peru!
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