La Huaca Pucllana

Today Davin, Erin, and I ventured out into the Peruvian sun to see the archeological site close to Laura's house. The culture that lived there worshiped the moon and the sea, and shark meat was a delicacy. In spite of its matriarchal structure, the human sacrifices found there were still all of women age 12 to 25. Nothing like a good virgin to please your deity. My favorite part was the small garden with foods traditionally eaten by the Lima culture. They had ducks, llamas, and guinea pigs too. Yum.
For lunch, Laura made a "pastel de aceituna" literally translated to mean tuna cake. Although I've never been a huge fan of tuna, this dish was pretty delicious, perhaps due to Lima's close proximity to the ocean. After lunch, we again ventured out into the city, exploring an Inca Market with various handicrafts. There was definitely some cool stuff, and the people there were all friendly.
In the evening we again went exploring. We took a central walk way down a commercial district. It ran through a park and there were many families and couples out enjoying the fresh evening air. People were selling goods and food from carts. Roaming the lawn and gardens were many many cats. They were friendly and clean, if a little bit skinny. You wouldn't even need to own a cat if you lived in Lima; you'd just have to go to this park for all your kitten needs. There were also these awesome cubes that were about 7 1/2 feet tall, and on each side of them was amazing graffiti art. We weren't sure if the city allowed random artists to spray paint them or if they were done illegally. I only wish I had had my camera with me so I could take pictures.
Next we went to La Calle Pizza where we ate pizza. A waitress offered us free drinks if we came to her restaurant to eat, so naturally we did. We got drinks called pisco sours which were pretty tasty.
Now I am back at home and am pretty exhausted from sun burn and walking. I have to explore as much as possible before school starts, so hopefully in the next week I'll have more stories to tell.
Until then,
Abby