Today.
So kathy got us up at about 8:20 this morning. We planned on meeting ray for breakfast at 9:30, then we were supposed to go walk down to a clinic where they teach blind people to give massages to earn a living.
I was on the computer at 9:05 when there was a knock at the door, Ray comes in and says " oh, are you guys ready to go?" and kathy says " oh, your early, I thought you were meeting us at 9:30" and ray says " Are you kidding? we always meet at 9 on tuesdays for breakfast. " Kathy says, oh, well, guess I just got that mixed up. Sarah and I were almost ready to go anyways. So ray popped down to the drycleaners and we finished up and meet him on the conerner and started walking.
The breakfast place was about 3 blocks away, once we sat down the waitress brought over 1 single menu for sarah and I too look at, while ray and kathy ordered they typical cheese omlette and toast. The whole menu was in spanish so I had no idea what I was looking at. Ray said they had omellets and eggs 100 different ways, sarah got a cheese omelette also, but I told ray I dident like eggs, so pretty much the only thing left on the menu was toast. I would have been fine with that, but they only had white bread. I tried to cancel but it dident translate, ray said he would just eat it, and after a few mintues told me to just head to the grocery store down the street to pick up a roll. He followed me down there and before he turned to go back he said the funnist thing to me " I just have to say I admire you for putting up with moods that even I have trouble dealing with, and I will leave it at that" I thought that was so great that he acknolawdge the outbursts as well. I was able to find a wheat roll, and a sweet roll that reminded me of juleaka sans cardamon. When I sat back down everyone had gotten there food. Ray and kathy started talking about Ron, and all of his crazy stories that he invents while they talk to him, like having dinner with the king of siam, or high tea with the princess of russia. All these crazy things. Ray wrapped it up by saying, "yeah, I think when you get old like that your mind startes getting fuzzy, and you cant really remember details so you just throw things into random places" As he is saying that he is slowly leaning back in his chair and pointing to kathy right out of eyeshot of her. Sarah and I both say this and tried our best not to laught.
We started walking to the massage appt at 10:15, it was only a 15 mintues walk, but ray wanted us to take our time and relax a little bit. We ended up taking a set at a park bench and chatting for a good half hour. Ray confessd that he thinks Kathy might slowly start be be lossing touch with reality a little bit. Like this morning when she thought we werent leaving until 9:30, when we always leave at 9, ir when she though out landlord lived in new york, she lives in washington dc and she knows it because we have discussed it, or even when she couldent remember the fact that your flight came back sunday and not monday, she made some cockamamee excuse that she wasent used to calanders starting on sunday instead of monday."
Its funny but as the day went on, Sarah and I really noticed that Kathy was losing touch a bit, even when Rolando came over he asked her, " why did you say they were coming back monday, when it was sunday?" to which she said " oh, just to confuse everybody."
Back to the massage. Sarah and I got a double room with a partition seperating our beds. 2 short blind men came in and told us to disrobe and lie on the table face down. The massages was amazing, he started at the bottem and worked his way up, I had never expierenced a full body massage like that. The 90 minutes went by so fast. I only wished I could have shut my mind off and focused on something peaceful, as opposed to all of the things I was going to have to do when I got back.
After the massage sarah and I made out way back to the appt. Rolando stopped by at 2pm to take us to the museum of natural history. We were surprised to see that it was free to get in, but for 15 soles we could have an english speaking guide, wilmar, take us around and explain everything to us, so we did. We went to the top floor and started the tour, but after about 5 minutes, 2 ladies who worked there stopped and started speaking to our guide, and pointing to kathys bag. Kathy starting getting pissed because she couldent understand a damn thing they were saying. The guide finally told her that she had to check her bag because it was too big to cary around, and they were worried she might steal something, she ripped them a new asshole saying " This is absolutly rediculous! this would never happen at the british museum!! I will wait downstairs till you are done!!" The poor tourguide was shocked, and he felt bad that she left, sarah just told him "she is being childish, just ignore her." Once kathy left though, the tour became 100 times more fun.Poor Rolando had to stay with Kathy our front. Our guide, wilmar was in his late 20's. He started asking us what we though of peruvian guys, and if we had boyfriends and what not. He was a totally riot, and we all kept cracking dirty and funny jokes left and right, throughout the tour. ( In fact it was a tour about ancient sex rituals with drugs and rock and roll and the whole shebang, so naturally the jokes fit in) It was probably one of the best tours of a museum I have ever been on, he even took us around to all the floors and stayed with us to explain everything until his shift ended at 4. I did learn quite a bit about ancient peruvian culture, but having fun chatting with a local was way entertaining also, wilmar was really cool.
We left the museum at about 5 pm. Kathy wasent pissed anymore thank god, though sarah heard her make a comment about how she was going to write the president of the museum to complain about how she was treated. Whatever Kathy.
We then headed to the Peruvain embassy where they were featuring the lord of Sipan exhibit. Which was basically the peruvian version of king tut. It was pretty cool. We got to sit in one of the main halls and watch a short dvd about the discovery of the tomb. They even had waiters passing out little glasses of juice for the audience, which was sweet. That room was just beautiful, it was really bg, and looked liked it belonged in buckingham palae. Most everything in the exhibit was in spanish so I dident catch a whole lot of it. Kathy had rolando on a leash having him translate everything for her. Sarah and I left when we were all finished and waited outside for the 2 of them. Rolando is the sweetest nicest man in all of lima I think, who wouldent hurt a fly, and would make an excellent husband. He will make some girl very happy, he is a total gentleman, who even gave up his seat to a woman who was carrying a baby at the embassy,But I think Sarah put it best when she called him "every grandmothers wet dream."
Kathy said dinner was on her, and she mentioned pizza. Which sounded good to me, trouble is the only pizza place around was pizza hut. Sarah wasent too keen, but I am all about the hut, so I persueded her. We were starving anyways. We ended up getting 2 huge pizzas, a solo veggie for kathy,soda and breadsticks, all for under $25, which is insane. I think pizza hut ships there cheese all around the world, because it tastes the same everywhere you go. We had a realy nice dinner, and by then it was about 7:30 so we decided to head back home and call it a night. I cant wait to have some of that cold leftover pizza for breakfast in the morning!
I was on the computer at 9:05 when there was a knock at the door, Ray comes in and says " oh, are you guys ready to go?" and kathy says " oh, your early, I thought you were meeting us at 9:30" and ray says " Are you kidding? we always meet at 9 on tuesdays for breakfast. " Kathy says, oh, well, guess I just got that mixed up. Sarah and I were almost ready to go anyways. So ray popped down to the drycleaners and we finished up and meet him on the conerner and started walking.
The breakfast place was about 3 blocks away, once we sat down the waitress brought over 1 single menu for sarah and I too look at, while ray and kathy ordered they typical cheese omlette and toast. The whole menu was in spanish so I had no idea what I was looking at. Ray said they had omellets and eggs 100 different ways, sarah got a cheese omelette also, but I told ray I dident like eggs, so pretty much the only thing left on the menu was toast. I would have been fine with that, but they only had white bread. I tried to cancel but it dident translate, ray said he would just eat it, and after a few mintues told me to just head to the grocery store down the street to pick up a roll. He followed me down there and before he turned to go back he said the funnist thing to me " I just have to say I admire you for putting up with moods that even I have trouble dealing with, and I will leave it at that" I thought that was so great that he acknolawdge the outbursts as well. I was able to find a wheat roll, and a sweet roll that reminded me of juleaka sans cardamon. When I sat back down everyone had gotten there food. Ray and kathy started talking about Ron, and all of his crazy stories that he invents while they talk to him, like having dinner with the king of siam, or high tea with the princess of russia. All these crazy things. Ray wrapped it up by saying, "yeah, I think when you get old like that your mind startes getting fuzzy, and you cant really remember details so you just throw things into random places" As he is saying that he is slowly leaning back in his chair and pointing to kathy right out of eyeshot of her. Sarah and I both say this and tried our best not to laught.
We started walking to the massage appt at 10:15, it was only a 15 mintues walk, but ray wanted us to take our time and relax a little bit. We ended up taking a set at a park bench and chatting for a good half hour. Ray confessd that he thinks Kathy might slowly start be be lossing touch with reality a little bit. Like this morning when she thought we werent leaving until 9:30, when we always leave at 9, ir when she though out landlord lived in new york, she lives in washington dc and she knows it because we have discussed it, or even when she couldent remember the fact that your flight came back sunday and not monday, she made some cockamamee excuse that she wasent used to calanders starting on sunday instead of monday."
Its funny but as the day went on, Sarah and I really noticed that Kathy was losing touch a bit, even when Rolando came over he asked her, " why did you say they were coming back monday, when it was sunday?" to which she said " oh, just to confuse everybody."
Back to the massage. Sarah and I got a double room with a partition seperating our beds. 2 short blind men came in and told us to disrobe and lie on the table face down. The massages was amazing, he started at the bottem and worked his way up, I had never expierenced a full body massage like that. The 90 minutes went by so fast. I only wished I could have shut my mind off and focused on something peaceful, as opposed to all of the things I was going to have to do when I got back.
After the massage sarah and I made out way back to the appt. Rolando stopped by at 2pm to take us to the museum of natural history. We were surprised to see that it was free to get in, but for 15 soles we could have an english speaking guide, wilmar, take us around and explain everything to us, so we did. We went to the top floor and started the tour, but after about 5 minutes, 2 ladies who worked there stopped and started speaking to our guide, and pointing to kathys bag. Kathy starting getting pissed because she couldent understand a damn thing they were saying. The guide finally told her that she had to check her bag because it was too big to cary around, and they were worried she might steal something, she ripped them a new asshole saying " This is absolutly rediculous! this would never happen at the british museum!! I will wait downstairs till you are done!!" The poor tourguide was shocked, and he felt bad that she left, sarah just told him "she is being childish, just ignore her." Once kathy left though, the tour became 100 times more fun.Poor Rolando had to stay with Kathy our front. Our guide, wilmar was in his late 20's. He started asking us what we though of peruvian guys, and if we had boyfriends and what not. He was a totally riot, and we all kept cracking dirty and funny jokes left and right, throughout the tour. ( In fact it was a tour about ancient sex rituals with drugs and rock and roll and the whole shebang, so naturally the jokes fit in) It was probably one of the best tours of a museum I have ever been on, he even took us around to all the floors and stayed with us to explain everything until his shift ended at 4. I did learn quite a bit about ancient peruvian culture, but having fun chatting with a local was way entertaining also, wilmar was really cool.
We left the museum at about 5 pm. Kathy wasent pissed anymore thank god, though sarah heard her make a comment about how she was going to write the president of the museum to complain about how she was treated. Whatever Kathy.
We then headed to the Peruvain embassy where they were featuring the lord of Sipan exhibit. Which was basically the peruvian version of king tut. It was pretty cool. We got to sit in one of the main halls and watch a short dvd about the discovery of the tomb. They even had waiters passing out little glasses of juice for the audience, which was sweet. That room was just beautiful, it was really bg, and looked liked it belonged in buckingham palae. Most everything in the exhibit was in spanish so I dident catch a whole lot of it. Kathy had rolando on a leash having him translate everything for her. Sarah and I left when we were all finished and waited outside for the 2 of them. Rolando is the sweetest nicest man in all of lima I think, who wouldent hurt a fly, and would make an excellent husband. He will make some girl very happy, he is a total gentleman, who even gave up his seat to a woman who was carrying a baby at the embassy,But I think Sarah put it best when she called him "every grandmothers wet dream."
Kathy said dinner was on her, and she mentioned pizza. Which sounded good to me, trouble is the only pizza place around was pizza hut. Sarah wasent too keen, but I am all about the hut, so I persueded her. We were starving anyways. We ended up getting 2 huge pizzas, a solo veggie for kathy,soda and breadsticks, all for under $25, which is insane. I think pizza hut ships there cheese all around the world, because it tastes the same everywhere you go. We had a realy nice dinner, and by then it was about 7:30 so we decided to head back home and call it a night. I cant wait to have some of that cold leftover pizza for breakfast in the morning!