I am sure that we woke up late. I think it might have been
around 10:30 or so but since we got to sleep some time deep after 3am it made
sense in a way. I don’t think we really drank that much so neither of us really
had any sort of hangover but I had an emergency trip to the bathroom in the
night and I was hoping I was better by morning.
We got cleaned up (I was pleased to find out the shower worked better)
and headed out to a restaurant that served farm raised (on the premises) trout
as a primary dish to meet her friend Elisabeth Yenny (call her Jenny) and her
husband Fulvio who is originally from Italy. Jenny also worked onboard the same
cruise ships Daniela did back in the day and that was how they met. Jenny lives in Arequipa and the couple had a
pizza shop that they were deciding to close and open a different one due to
location issues. Also to come along were
there friends Lucecita and her boyfriend Andrea (also an Italian) and another
couple that I am sorry I really can’t remember their names but they were more
quiet than I was. The wife was
pregnant. Fulvio was sick from eating
bad calamari during their New Year party wherever they went so he really didn’t
eat or drink much.
Guess what, I had to again run to the bathroom (which didn’t
have a seat and only had paper towels outside of the stall) because I again had
an emergency. I had had a little bit of beer before this and I stopped
immediately. Apparently the restaurant
was on some sort of holiday menu which meant it only had about half of what it
typically serves and everyone got upset and we decided to go somewhere
else. So they settled up the beer and we
all piled out and walked to a new restaurant about 7 blocks away with a short
ride from a local family’s van.
The new restaurant was on what Fulvio called Calle de
Cholesterol. Their specialty was also
chicharon and all sorts of other deep fried things. Daniela ordered lamb ribs. I had a dish of
white rice because of my stomach. They had a lot of beer amongst everyone but I
just had water. We had spots of dancing as this place had live music that
continued throughout the time that we were there. I think we met at the first
restaurant somewhere between 12 and 1 and left the second restaurant around
6:30 or so. They were all very funny
people but it was of course very difficult to follow everything because there
were only a few spots of English in the conversation. I did my best to keep up
but at times I had to tune out because it was too much concentration with all
the people talking and the music in the background. They were definitely a partying sort. It was a long day for me. After that Daniela had hoped to have dinner
with her family but I begged off and she agreed probably because she was full
from the lunch. We went back to the hotel and took it easy for the night.
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