We got going a bit late in the morning as we were up fairly late. We had our left over pizza and some tea and/or instant coffee for breakfast.
Our first thing to do was to travel far to the northern end of Lima where Daniela's mother's market stall was. She just ended her stay in the marketplace after many years and we had to help her pack up and move out. I am sure it was a sad thing for her and it was involuntary as the owner of the market asked her to move out. We had to take a bus to the Metropolitano to a combi to get to the marketplace. I think it took us an hour and a little bit.
When we arrived Donna and her mother were already starting to pack things up. Daniela and I went out in search of boxes first then we started to help pack also. We probably spent the better part of 5 or 6 hours on packing. We had to disassemble a couple of shelving sets she had. They found a truck to carry all the stuff to storage in their old family house in Callao. Daniela and I rode in the back during the trip. It was bouncy and a little uncomfortable. I think it took us about half an hour to get there. We then unloaded the truck and packed it into the rooms. When all of that was done Daniela and I took a different combi than Donna and her mother.
We took the combi to just the edge of Miraflores then switched off to a bus which brought us to the Vivanda just down the road from our apartment. We did a quick bit of shopping for the apartment then immediately started getting cleaned up and ready for a nice dinner at La Rosa Nautica for our 2 month anniversary. A guy from the apartment came in and replaced the missing TV that had been destroyed while we were getting ready. He finished just in time. We caught a taxi to the restaurant and arrived probably a few minutes late. It is not really far from the apartment but down on the beach obviously.
We were told we had to wait a couple minutes so went to the bar and ordered a couple of drinks. I had a Glenfiddich 12 year Daniela had a piskini which was a pisco based martini. We actually didn't finish either of them. We had barely been served them by the time we were seated to our table. We ordered a starter of shrimp in deep fried Chinese noodles. They were good. Daniela ate more than I did.
I had a stewed rabbit dish which had potatoes, mushrooms, bacon, baby onions, leeks and rice. It was extremely good. Daniela had a steak with an egg based sauce over pasta. It was cooked less than I think she asked for but it was really good she said. We accompanied the meal with an Argentinian merlot which was very nicely flavored.
Daniela was too full for dessert which had me worried she had been replaced by an alien. I had the cafe de popa which is what I had the first time we went there. It was coffee ice cream with coffee liqueur, whipped cream and chocolate covered espresso beans. It was very good. Daniela didn't want to try it.
From there it was back to the apartment by taxi and call it a night.
The pictures from today are located here.
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