Ok,
A lot has happened. The protest were ok. We had nice lunch and worked around the house.
Kaites tasty chicken My pork
On Thursday we went to INCA tops. This was really really cool because we learned about 7 grades of alpaca that can be found in the fleece. We weren’t allowed to take pictures. But at the end we bough discount yarn. Katie paid like $45 US for hers and me like $15.
Mine which is some silk Alpaca, and Alpaca
Kaites which is a large blend
Sorry this blog is really from the 8th
I know we already informed our family but to all our friends.
This morning we were jolted out of bed at 4Am by an earthquake. Now I waited in bed for a few minutes but then I decided I should wake Katie up who not being from CA, I don' t think she knew for a few what was going on. It was a pretty long earthquake, enough time to contemplate getting out of bed, then getting out of bed then to make sure Katie knew what was going on ( she was asleep for half of it) then for Katie to find her shoes, me my glasses, tell Katie to get away from the window,look at the swinging chandler, look in the hall way at the sister running around then finally stand in the door frame. So all in in all it was a 5.8. ( click here for article)
We settled back into bed then woke up to go to a meeting for a photo shoot. It was interesting to learn the ins an outs of this part of the Business.
WE then had a tasty lunch of stuffed avocado ( chicken, peas, mayo, cilantro).
Then we went to work. While we were there we worked on stuff for the workshop. There were these sheep going up the hill when we were in the office.
We then went to meet an interpreter for the workshop. She was super nice and had learned while English in exchange n Virginia .I had a café con Leche and these tasty cookie thing called Alfajor.
After that we went to multiple touring agencies. While Miguel, and Katie haggled with them, I worked on my sock. ( I wish I had the travel agent hold my sock).
After that it was late like 8:30. So we came home and talked about Politics and the world. Miguel is a super life and Professional mentor. He also appraised us on the political situation tomorrow, that there would be protest, and riot police out.That we are a little unsure if it will be bad or nothing.( click here for news article).
This is a picture of a pickup truck that ahd animal hides in it the other day.
We also went shopping last night with Miguel. He showed us a new super market that was good. WE got real good Belgium Cheese, good ham, Coconut cookie, Coca energy cookies, Pear juice ( that is all mine), Katie got some chips.
Saturday morning Katie was regretting eating lettuce. At lunch we had shrimp soup and then I regretted eating anything that had purple beading little eyes staring at me. We knitted. Katie and I laid in be wondering why we were eating stuff.
We went and had lunch in which we ate a lot of bits of cow, Udder, Stomachs, and heart. The heart was really really tasty, the udder was chewy and well I grew up in So. Cal so I know better. Then we went and had local chicken it was good. We went to the movies and saw Images which I spent most of the movie with my eyes closed they had these really good candied nuts.
this is the hudge meat. this is cows heart
This is the chicken place we had.
Church we saw on the way home
Monday morning we went to work and got stuff ready for the workshop. We then went IPAC for the launch of their new web site. Here we learned that it is important to give the media lots of good food and alcohol. While we were listening to the presentation they came around with lots of pisco sours, which were so strong smell something close to a bottle of rubbing alcohol, two more later, some food that were some fried egg roll type thing with sea urchin and scallops, tamales and bacon wrapped chicken stuffed with cheese We were also the focus as the media, because we were Americas and my blonde hair is a target hat sticks us out. we went to Mitchell for yarn but they were closed.
We then came home and had a lunch where there was no room for lunch.
In the afternoon Katie went with Miguel to buy clothes for the photo shoot.
I went with the manger to find knitting needles and stuff for the workshop. When he told me to leave my purse at home, because it was a rough area and that I stand out we figured it was going to be interesting .The first knitting store we went to didn’t have circulars and people we staring.... funny. On the street too. Then the second store we went to kind of over charged us partly because of me most likely. The second one was better, but a hand knitters dream lies not in Peru knitting stores they are cramped and crowed and filled with acrylic ( unless you like that sort of thing).
We then went to an office supply store to get all the stuff for the workshop. This was interesting as we have to buy in a minim of three, and we over analyze things. Part ways through all this everyone started to realize I was America and “tried” talking to me and kept asking Cleaver to ask me what certain things are and how you say “ I don’t love you anymore in Spanish”.Nice then when there were about 7 ladies waiting n us we decided we should go home.
While I wrote this post this morning I was listening to Cast on. Try it is is good.
First of all, let me make a statement, if anyone remembers when THE YARN HARLOT talks in one of her books, how people tell her they can’t knit because they might poke their eye out and how that would never happen. YARN HARLOT DO NOT NOT try to knit socks in a cab in PERU.
I have freaky feelings about things. AS I pulled out my sock swatch, I knitted two rows with US size 1,. The jarring and jostling of the cab seemed totally manageable to a knitter determined to knit. Then it happened and while starring at those size one needles, it came back to me, that part of the book, where Yarn Harlot mentions, eye impaling.Let me tell you I am a risk taker. Now for the record you are talking to someone who, knits in Bacteriology lab with flames, Knits and walks across campus never really getting hit by cars, or people, or walking into walls. So I was very scared…. Of actually impaling my eye. Deciding not to tempt fate, who is a fickle mistress, I seem to annoy or piss off on a regular basis.So I put my sock bag in to my purse and tried to act like the image hadn’t ever entered my mind.That in no sense of the knitting universe could or would that actully happen. But since fate likes to screw with me I decided to not give her a chance to make me into that freak accident.
We were going to the Santa Catalina Monastery. The largest one in the world? It was old, and rich with the sense of time and kind of you know religious over tones but beautiful pictures, and some you couldn’t take flash didn’t work out because I am working on my anger management issue I am having with my camera.
Also…..Katie finished her first scarf ever she learned to knit while we had our fiber seminar thingy in Akron. But she told Miguel ( the owner of Misti) that it was acrylic. Now Katie is a new knitter. Luckily she has gotten some Alpaca. And if any one knows of a pet quality one under $500 in the Cleveland area, I might be buying her one for her wedding. Might.
So the Santa Catalina Monastery. Cool.
After the Monastery Miguel had a meeting and Katie and I went shopping. Katie has this really cool six sense of finding jewelry don’t ask me how I have the fashion sense of a wombat. She got some great stuff one that had fish bones? Yeah but it looked cool. Also we learned Spanish and haggling I got this, an owl pouch for my earrings and these shell ones. We aren’t wearing any of the earrings until we get back to the states and change out the pieces.
Oh yeah this is lunch that day it is like a stuffed squash,
Then we went and met up with Miguel, while we were waiting for him since it was independence day we got spiked coffee. I got a an Irish Coffee. They aren’t messing around here I think 1/3 of it was really good strong whiskey. We then got a piece of cake. ( I was trying to not take so many pictures because it was the 4th).
The we came home for a light supper, at which time I start preaching (well espousing) to Katie the Yarn harlot and the goodness of knitting in life. Now you need to understand something historically I consider my self a SPINNER, not a KNITTER. So you can imagine my surprise to be telling anyone this. But a the moment in PERU, knitting socks way wins out drop spindling silk and cashmere…
So Miguel took us out to celebrate the 4th we had lots of beer, and some dinner, Katie has ostrich I of course had crepes, if we ever figure out how to download pictures from Katies camera well post. The hunt for a Peruvian husband continues.
So at the close of the 4th it is much like the New Years of the summer, from Akron to Peru, Arcata to Annapolis,Seattle to Palm Springs. Alone or in a crowd. The fourths live in your mind just like the ball dropping at midnight. Hope yours was as good as mine.
