An Interesting Night...

6/11/09
Gran Bolivar Hotel, Lima

Yesterday was a long but fun day. We messed around with laptop programs in the morning and then had a lunch break. We went to a nice cafe place next to the Plaza Mayor and I had picante mariscos con arroz (spicy seafood with rice) which was really good. We did more things with the XO laptop in the afternoon and practiced designing a community project. We then went to a bar to watch the Lima verse Columbia World Cup qualifier game. Unfortunately Columbia won 1-0. After the game, John and I left to meet up with Abby at Jockey Plaza (the giant mall place). We went to the grocery store first and I picked up a pair of shoes for 25 dollars and John and I got breakfast for today. We then went to the Cinema and saw Angels and Demons in English with Spanish subtitles. It was a good movie and very intense. Walking out of the movie we felt like we were in the states until we got out to the hallway and everyone was speaking Spanish again. We then had quite an adventure getting home. The one time we wanted to take a street taxi there were not any. Then we saw a lot of taxis but we did not trust any of them. We decided to take a sketchy bus home but we had to transfer to a different bus. The bus took a different route than normal and left us on an unknown place on our destination street. We did not know what to do so we walked down the street a little and then did not want to be lost so we took a creepy taxi but luckily we were closer than we thought but we made it back to Abby's house safely.