DAY #2, Entry #2 - Lunch and the city

My day started off with lunch in the hotel in a really nice resteruant. I had the buffett, which was a very interesting experience. I have no doubt that the waiter asked his friends what the heck he did to get stuck with me as a customer. The food was very good, but it was a far different experience that eating at a resteruant in the states. They brought the meat around to you one type after another, asking if you wanted a slice. The beef was especially good.

I definetly need to figure out how the exchance rate works, and how much everything is actually costing me. I don't think things are expensive, but I have no idea. I'll be looking into that now.

After lunch, I walked around my area of the city for about 2 hours, and loved every moment of it. I loved seeing the people, hearing the sounds, looking at the buildings and enjoying the sunshine. Its about 70 degrees here, but it feels very hot because its muggy. I came back to the hotel hot and probably stinky. The museum was closed, which was okay with me. I very much enjoyed just walking and looking. I went into a beautiful catholic church, and saw a million old buildings.

I honestly believe that the richest people in this city are the people who fix and install horns. I have never heard so many horns, and for no purpose whatsoever. And not simply normal, beep beep horns. One that sound like sirens, and car alarms and goodness knows what else. They use them to attract customers and get people's attention. There must be 15 taxis or buses for every 1 normal car on the road. I'm glad I'm walking, and I hope they choose not to hit the dorky white tourist.

I'm just in the room to write this, post a couple of pictures, and head back out. I've looked up a couple of places I'd specifically like to visit, so I'll head to them now.

On a minor note of bad news, they don't sell Mt. Dew in Peru and the Pepsi (and Coke) come in 55 gallon drums. I did find a large Walmart like store and got some crackers, water and Pepsi. Thank goodness for some kind of cola :)