Gene's Charlie Brown Christmas Tree

It's getting to look a lot more like Christmas!

It's Monday night, just a few more days before the fat man in the red suit comes around. Every day they put up more Christmas decorations in the park. More lights, more music, and more shoppers. Laurie took a bunch more pictures tonight and will put them up soon. We found out that Christmas Eve is the big night! At midnight the fireworks go off the people shout and sing and toast with what ever drink they have in their hand. We were told on good authority that it's OK to have an open bottle on the street. I'll keep ours under cover.

Lunch at the Cricket Club

The Cat Lady

Cats for Sister Sue

My sister would love all the cats that live in the park, not to mention the lady who comes with all her shopping bags of food to feed them everyday!

Christmas in the Park

Christmas Trees in Lima

   

Yes, you're reading that right:

That decorated fake tree has been marked down from US$1,500 to only US$899!

Tomorrow I will post a picture of the one that we bought!

Happenings in the Park Today

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Another New Cevicheria Discovery

Cebicheria La Mar

Parque Tradiciones

So we discovered this fabulous new park on our walk today.

Then we discovered a great new condominium building going up right on the park.

A Plethora of Movie Theaters

Especially for Goldye

Creativity at the Local Deli

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A slow Sunday...and Restaurant Observations, living in Lima ...

Laurie is a little under the weather, so I'm giving her some "Poor Baby's" and seeing to her needs. In between I've heated up the left-over roasted chicken and am having some lunch.

Restaurant Observations...
I've noticed  some similarities between Costa Rica restaurants and here in Lima. Like serving rice and french fries with your meal. Or when your order a dish that comes either with Carne or Pollo, and you order it with Carne...it arrives with Pollo. Even the dish I ordered. Thin beef steak with rice and fried bananas. I thought that would be safe, as I was not in the mood for french fries. It came with more fries then rice! They can't help themselves. This seems to happen more in the small "hole-in the-wall" places. 
This is not a neg. for Lima, I enjoy the food here and the life style. The weather is great this time of year. I've been told about the winter in Lima when it stays overcast all the time and you never see the sun. I think I can live with that. The temp avg in the winter is within my acceptance range. 
Will have to improve my Spanish. ..."Vamos a ver"

Christmas is Coming

Parque Kennedy at Night

I've Really Never Seen This Anywhere Before

Gallon sized Listerine in the Restaurant Ladies' Room - How Convenient!

This House Needs Me

It seems no one lives there but the turtles...

It's the little things that make life interesting...

When your apartment is on the 11th floor and you find a maintenance sign at the elevator door it makes one pause. WE ARE TRAPPED !!! This has never happened before.? How long will the elevator by out-of-order? We can walk down I think. But what about the walk up 11 flights of stairs!


I've never lived on the 11th floor before and I have no pacience for this. Laurie on the other hand does not seem concerned. If we just wait a while the elevator will be operating again she says.

In my mind I'm thinking “It's a plot! “they” have shut down the elevator and taken over the apartment bldg! I walk down to 10...there is no sign on the elevator door. I go down one more floor...the same. I then walk back up to 11 and my knees are feeling the strain. We try to call down to the lobby but the phone doesn't work! Laurie is still calm. By this time I'm ready to pound on the elevator door, when I see a young man coming up the stairs with a work light strung over his shoulder. He walks over the elevator door and I ask him ,in my poor Spanish, how long before the work is done? Then without a word he pushes the down button and the elevator door slides open.

The Money Changers

Don't Really Understand Why We Would Need 3 or these Money Changing People on Every Corner - especially since there seem to be 2 or 3 banks on every block.

How nice to have a chicken place next door...

Well, I finally got to try Pardos Chicken right next to our apartment bldg. It's funny how after a large delicious lunch and you're stuffed you can get hungry again a few hours later. But that's what happened and jumping at the opportunity I said “Hon” why don't I just go to the chicken place and pick up something for later if we get hungry again? The picture tells the rest of the story. OK so it wasn't one the great Peruvian dishes that have been pictured so far in our blog, I only had to walk 50 ft or so to the restaurant.