It was decided we would go into Lima, so after preparation we waited for the bus on the dirt strip between roads for the bus.
We caught one to Lima that was only moderately filled with people, but on the way it rapidly became jam packed. It was quite hot and stuffy on the bus and I zoned out for most of it.
The section of Lima we were exploring had several malls and we spent the first fifteen minutes talking to the Olo Internet people.
The plan was to take the little ones to Divercity, a children’s museum of sorts. We found out it wasn’t open until three, so we walked over to the food court in one of the malls.
After some discussion, we ate there and I watched the siblings as we staked out a table and Mother and Father got food.
Whilst we ate, Mother and I made a bargain that if I took the young ones to their museum, I would get Nutella. I was quite happy with the situation, until we found out I wasn’t old enough to take them there myself.
We left Father and the small ones there and walked over to Plaza Vea. Ryan and Mother had long conversations about chocolate for a while before we walked around the upscale mall and looked at clothes and whatnot.
I made them stop at a Nescafe sample store thing, and we got free chocolate coffees. Well, Jack had the caramel, but in my opinion the chocolate was better.
My stunning beauty was so impressive that the Nescafe guy invited me to take a photo shoot for the Nescafe Facebook page. Since he didn’t want to be rude, he had to bring Jack along too.
Once I had finished modeling (and Jack) Mother and Ryan went shopping and Jack and I walked over to Divercity to see if Father was still in there.
Jack lurked around for a while before finally being brave enough to talk to them and we asked to fetch Father for, which they did and we went back to Mother.
We caught the bus back to our beach house and so ended our day in Lima.
Today was spent lazing around the house and discussing the Amazon trip and whatnot. Lovely times.
Jennah
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The first thing that happened was we got our cards – wait! we didn’t get our cards, we got a map. We went in and we got these watches that scan you in. We had to put our watches on these hand things so we could go in to different things, like be a model or deliver propane. This was a like a children’s museum but it had fake jobs, like a grocery store, a restaurant, a cooking school where we made these crackers and you can eat them. They are real. They had a hospital where you could be a doctor (editors note: this was the library and Sylvia did not go work at the hospital) but you didn’t really do much but draw and then you get an eraser. It was a pink heart. You get fake money for working at the stores. You put the money into your bank account. I had an ATM card. We used the money for buying stuff. We didn’t really buy STUFF but we got makeovers and that cost money. It cost about 40 bucks for the whole thing, I go my nails painted and my hair done and my eyes done. My nails were orange and pink. My eyes were blue with sparkles on them. I went to the propane station. This is where you drive around in a truck and pick up and deliver propane, basically fill them up with gas.
We went to the model thing, me and Annabelle. The model thing is where you dress up and change and me and Annabelle both got black hats but we didn’t have the same pants. I had totally dressed in black pants. We did not put a shirt on we kept our shirts on and put black jackets on. Once we were totally dressed I went out on the thing, the thing people walk on that’s like a line and goes to a circle and then goes another way. People were in the audience watching me like dad and this other girl’s father. Annabelle wore the same thing as me but different pants. There was a girl who worked there that kind of speaks English and they all got my name wrong like Sophia until finally at the library they got my name right. The girl that worked there helped us pose. We posed and posed and posed. After I left there, I went to see if Cocacola was done because i wanted to get a coke. They were not done so I went to the toilet paper factory. They showed us what it is made of. It is made out of trees and then they turn it white. Then I went to Cocacola. They show you how make coke. They fill the bottles up with sugar and water and I don’t know what the brown stuff is I think its cocoa and they mix it up. We got our own bottle! I went to work at the gas station with Max. You fill up the cars. Annabelle was not there she had to go through a HUGE driving test. At the library I read books. I read a creature book, I mean a monster book and a book about a train. At the end of the day when I left the children’s museum I got cotton candy and Max and Annie got cookies. Annie got chocolate chip and Max got oreos. Jack and Jennah were waiting for us outside and we went through all these lights at the mall, lights on the ground, lights in the fountains, lights everywhere! Then I got to mom. I had my cotton candy. Wait! I still have it now!. We went home on the bus. We had to walk far to the bus station. The bus was really crowded. I sat on mom’s lap and someone gave us their seat.
The very best thing was the modeling. And the makeover.
***Editors note: We went to Divercity which as over 60 fake but real places kids can work like the Tottus (grocery store), propane delivery, gas station, hospital, hair salon… Kids get an electronic bracelet so you can go to computers all over the place and scan your bracelet and see the location of all your kids at any time. They get paid fake money and have a fake ATM card and can deposit and withdraw and pay for services. Annnabelle got a driver’s license. It was pretty cool.
]]>A little of a let down after being in Chile for so long. No more clean places and such.
The first day here was spent getting comfortable and helping Mother, Ryan and Jack to get ready to go to La Paz.
The next couple of days were spent recouporating from our airport shanigan.
It was all very chilled and Dad went out to get hotdogs. We cooked them about was about to eat them when we made the startling discovery that the hotdogs were wrapped in plastic wrappers.
Ah, Peru.
So father used a butter knife and attempted to scrooge the hotdog out in little clumps until we had a big plate of shredded hotdog and made sandwiches.
Luckily, the adjoining nights were better.
The pool has been getting used frequently. Sylvia seems to enjoy getting out, taking a shower and getting dressed then deciding to get back in.
Yesterday we checked out the beach and discovered that it was at the bottom of a cliff/steep hill. There were locked gates and such so we have yet to go there.
We explored the neighborhood a bit, walking about a mile to the nearest ATM. It was pretty much the same; restaurants, one fancy restaurant and a barren strip of dirt between the roads. How pretty and photogenic it was.
Ryan, Jack and mother got back last night and brought me a wonderful leather jacket. It wasn’t the original one they had shown me, which was garishly red and has a horrible fur collar. It was apparently a joke. Ha. Ha.
They also brought back several bars of Bolivian chocolate, which was quite delicious, some oven mitts that father got endlessly excited over and other things.
Now that they are back, I’m sure adventures shall start soon…
Jennah
]]>One of the things I love about the desert is its lack of trees or shrubbery, because, it makes it 90% easier to find things on the ground such as: cool rocks, crystals, cool rocks with crystals, and so on. The other day we stopped to camp on a road next to a few, kind of giant sand dunes. The Kind of Giant Sand Dunes were kind of really big and were home to almost nothing living, but festering with stones and pretty rocks. I was out and about during the early hours of the day, looking for fossils and pretty stones and things of that nature, when I came upon a vain of quartz that lay there exposed above the Kind of Giant Sand Dunes. The vain of quartz I found was crumbling apart and many semi large boulders of the stone could be found. Inside a few blocks of this “quartz” I found many quartz crystals molded into the shape that of prisms. I now have a ton of crystals in a bag under my bed from the Kind of Giant Sand Dunes.
We’ve come a long way since the Kind of Giant Sand Dunes. Now we’re in a desert that’s less flattering and much rockier, but that’s okay because those famous lines and shapes of animals and such are here. Tomorrow, it’s possible, that maybe, we might, go flying over top these Nazca lines. It really is impossible to see them from the ground. I always had the impression that you would at least notice long line shaped strands running along the desert but apparently you don’t.
We were in Lima the other day. Back where I come from there’s this city called Anchorage and Lima looked a lot like a bigger, more spread out Anchorage. We stayed in Lima for a few days because our car broke down, right outside of it. It took my father and some mechanic guys a few days to get all the parts and stuff to fix are car, but soon it was ship shape and ready to drive out on the town. We went to a museum and looked at pots and stuff of that sort. The part of the museum that interested me, and that I really cared about was the top floor which was dedicated to pictures about the 1980-1991 Shining Path conflict. I don’t really want to go into detail about that right now. In Lima, we went to this fountain park that had the world’s tallest fountain ever. I like fountains but I don’t like the noise they make and sadly, every single one of these fountains made noise. There was a wonderful laser/water show at the end and that’s about it I think.
Sorry about the shortness of this post. There’s not all that much to write about I think. I mainly write about the landscape and that sort of stuff but the landscape has remained relatively the same since my last entry. We don’t really go into the towns and walk around the towns so it’s hard to write my opinion on them because I really don’t have one most of the time. A lot of the towns do smell really bad though. I don’t know why but when we drive through or by a town there’s always this really bad smell. The people here are friendly and kind but I miss the cool, moist mountains from Colombia; I’m not really all that big on dry and hot areas.
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Mom was in high school when the civil war happened and we saw pictures at the third floor of the museum of Peru.
Oh the ruins, there are ruins and mostly they are kind of lame because they were broken apart and really old stuff. We did climb up to the top and you can walk on a path around it. You can see the ocean with big rock islands in it, it was really nice.
We had Special K for breakfast because dad bought it and it has no taste unless you put sugar on it.
This is true: where we are camping now, there are grapes growing all around!
