Peru: Day 5

Hola! Today we did some cleaning around the house. Then worked a lot on our stories. I did a lot of work on the blog. For breaky we had the usual ham and cheese sandwiches. For lunch we headed into he market and went to a really ritzy place. Dimas ordered the Bistec for all, and we got to try chicha morada. The Bistec literally translates as beef steak- but I wouldn't have translated it like that. . . I have found that all of the beef down here is has a great flavor, but is super tough. This particular dish was a bed of rice, french fries, a mini salad, and a very thin (about a quarter inch), very tough piece of beef, it tasted great, but was very difficult to eat. Chicha morada is a very interesting drink. It is a very dark purple, almost black drink made from the juice of purple corn. Then they add cinnamon and pineapple juice. It has a very distinct flavor. Very Delicious! AH, I almost for got about the soup! It was kind of weird, but very good. It was a yellow soup served with a beef bone,- it tasted like both beef and chicken soup, had rice and corn. It was tasty. After lunch we exchanged more money, then headed back to Stella Maris. We waited here while Dimas, Blanca, Joel, Gamble and Emily went to visit with a person from Rauma to plan a visit up there. They returned, and Dimas said we would leaved a 9:15 for Las Brisas. 10:00 came and left. We finally left at around 10:15 and used a taxi, only 4 people this time, and arrived at 10:50. Only about an hour after it started. It was an amazing cultural experience. They had a very large dance floor in the middle, with a band in front on a stage. And there was seating all around the outside. They would have traditional and cultural dances in the middle that we would watch while eating our dinner comprised of a plate of fried chicken and french fries. Yes, it seams like everything in Peru is fried. . . Then they would clear the dance floor and the band would continue to play while people would fill up the floor. They alternated between cultural and free dances. IT was a very good experience, and I loved seeing and watching all of the cultural dances. Very nicely done.It ended at around 2:45 so we headed out, but for the return trip, Dimas needed to pick up Dheibarl (their son), so we had to have 5 in the taxi for the return trip. So another squished ride. Although this time Emily sat in the back, so it wasn't too bad. . . We all pretty much just went to bed right away. . . So I actually wrote this the next morning. Gracias! In Cristo, Miguel