El Centro

I had been wanting to get everyone up to Lima centro for a walk around Plaza de Armas and Plaza Bolivar and some of the surrounding sites. Today was finally the day. Unfortunately the new Museo de Gastronomico had decided this would be a good day to close for maintenance, in spite of the fact that according to the handwritten notice on the front door, they definitely should have been open all day today! We had a nice tour of the San Francisco monastery to look at the bones of the 70,000 or so people buried there. We enjoyed the awesome architecture and walking around the streets. I love Lima. We also went again to Hotel Bolivar for our second pisco sours of the day. In spite of the fact that Gene and I had been totally underwhelmed by the place the first time we went, we thought we should show our guests this beautiful and historic place, since everyone else seems to rave about it. Frankly the pisco sours weren't any better than the 2 sol sours at the little hole in the wall place where we had our first of the day while walking there. I think in the future I will show guests the beautiful lobby and restaurant and then take them somewhere else for the drinks and snacks. But as always, the beautiful plazas were alive with  people and we enjoyed just being there. The trip up on the metropolitano was quick and pleasant.