We actually woke up early today because Daniela had an appointment with a customer at her office at 10am. The customer was her friend Dariela's mother and her boyfriend. Lorena is from Argentina and Thornbjorn is from Norway and they met in Greece and have been seeing each other for 7 months so far. We got to the office a bit before 10 and Daniela had a fruit salad breakfast around the corner and I had some snack food from the Vivanda before they arrived.
They arrived basically a few minutes after 10 and were very nice people. He understands Spanish a bit less than I do and they speak in English together. He was a former semi-pro hockey player and even played in Sweden. You could definitely see it in his build even though he is near 60. We talked while they planned their excursion to Tarapoto for a few days a bit later in the month. He was a very interesting guy and it was cool to meet them. They did settle on a nice trip and Daniela booked it for them nice and quick and after they left we closed up and headed to the northern part of Lima to a large shopping area called Gamarra (not the giant Japanese monster turtle unfortunately). We got there by a combination of Metropolitano and taxi. It was crazy crowded with people who were shopping for all the new years eve knick knacks for their traditions. We had to change a shirt that Daniela bought for me for Christmas which was sized too small and then she bought some of the stuff we needed. She was planning for us to go out to a new years party somewhere.
We ate lunch at a food court in the shopping area where I had a braised lamb that was very tasty but unfortunately a bit tougher than I was expecting and was a little bit hard to eat with cheap plastic fork and knife. After we finished eating we had a bit more shopping to do then it was back to Miraflores by the combination of taxi and Metropolitano. We went to a salon where Daniela had some stuff done and I got a haircut when we got back. Then we walked back to the apartment with a quick stop at Vivanda.
At the apartment we ate some of the stuff we bought which was basically snacks and listened to music and Daniela wrote a large and very nice post about the year on Facebook. We had some wine and eventually we figured out that we weren't going to go out to a party and we basically did the new years traditions at the apartment instead and had a very nice night together. We watched fireworks from the balcony. New years was just like Christmas when it comes to fireworks. It may have been a bit tamer in Miraflores than Callao but there was still quite a lot.
For all that we did I only took pictures of our lunch. They are here.
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