Out and about in Lima

After a good snooze on Friday morning (from 4am - 11am), I was ready to see what the city was all about. Juan Pablo was my fun companion...we went to lunch at Rosa Nautica, on the cliffs of Miraflores. I tired this different kind of cebiche (yes, they spell it with a 'b' here) called tiradito. It is like a thicker cut of carpaccio and then it was covered in this sauce- yum! I had a yummy dish called Corvina Rosa Nautica (the house speciality- shocking name, eh?) that was yummy white fish with shrimp and baby scallops in huge shell... it was delish. Then Juan wanted me to try his favorite flavor here in Peru, which is that of the lucuma fruit... so we had a chocolate mousse with lucuma sauce. I was stuffed, so we needed to walk. We went over to Barranco, another interesting neighborhood, and checked out the Pedro Osma museum. It is in a beautiful old Colonial home and he amassed some amazing pieces of 17th, 18th and 19th century art. The grounds were also quite lovely...and there was also a special house for silver and gold artifacts. From there Juan and I strolled over to the plaza in Barranco, and then grabbed a cab to go downtown to the Plaza de Armas. Lots of activity on the streets on a Friday evening during rush hour! We wandered around the Plaza de Armas and took lots of pictures of colonial architecture...we even ran into a parade of sorts. I think Luis said it was a fundraising effort for the city ...hmm. The participants were wearing traditional garb of Peru with the bowler hats and all. We then headed down a pedestrian shopping route to the Plaza San Martin, which is smaller but much greener and mellow. Well, not exactly more mellow - I got my first shouts of appreciation for my derriere. Ha! I am definitely in Latin America! Juan can protect me ...he is a skinny guy, but quite tall at 6'2" ... More about the night on the town later. Fun times!