After a short flight from Amsterdam we landed in Lima. My mimi and Julio were there to pick us up and thoroughly spoil is for a full two weeks! Now I'm a little adverse to heat but I had the time of my life.
Mami had often told me about the place where she grew up. She told me about the mountains filled with llamas, the dessert cliffs that drop to the sea, the warm southern summer and hustle and bustle of Lima. But the part that really stuck in my mind was the food!
Ceviche de corvina, pisco sours, chita al ajo, lenguado a la chorrillana, tejas, chicha morada, Inca cola (the true soft drink of the Incas), chupe de camarones, algarrobina, cerveza Cusqueña, crema de lucuma. I didn't actually taste all of that but I trust my daddy when he tells me that it's all great. What I did try for the first time was ice cream, lucuma ice cream, and I was instantly convinced of the goodness of this earth!
We did so much. The big event was the move. My mom's childhood home will be torn down to make way for an tower of condominiums! This meant a sending stuff back home to France. I imported a nice virus from France which I generously shared with everyone. This didn't stop us from shopping, eating, ssupervising the move and, of course, hitting Wong very day, though I missed my dear friend Luma's birthday because mommy and daddy were sick. But you can check out pictures of the burial of her umbilical cord here: xxxxx.
We saw most of mommy's dearest friends over our stay and my uncle Francisco even flew down from Venezuela to see me!
The night before our sad departure my aunt Tani, Uncle Carlos and cousins Esteban and Ania invited us and a few close friends to their beach house. I had to stay in the shade but that didn't stop me from showing off my new bathing suit and having a great time!
You can check out a few snaps from our trip to Peru here:
mi primer viaje a Lima
