Our Time in Peru Draws to an End

As always, we finally start meeting people once we are about to leave. On Sunday we decided to have lunch at the Sunday afternoon take the family out for some great food place - Rincon Chami. As usual, it was packed and we ended up taking an inside table rather than wait. This turned out to be a lucky move as we sat next to a really cool group of people who gave us advice, insisted that we call them if we need any help at all, etc etc. They were a lot of fun to talk to - and were amazed at all the different foods we have tried! Meeting them and having a real dinner table conversation made our day.

Then on Tuesday we stopped back in to the bookstore to tell Sandra about our trip to Barranco. We wanted to let her know that we had followed her advice and spent the day in her town and that we like it. Sandra works part-time in the bookstore but is an artist who says she lives in Barranco because it's a nice quiet town and it's where all the artists live. She has a 1 1/2 year old daughter. We got talking about art (of course!) and other things and she offered to bring in some of her work on Wednesday (our last day here) to show us. So on our last day, we did a whole show-and-tell thing on the floor of the upstairs room in the bookstore. She ended up giving us one of her awesome paintings, so I have to make sure it makes it home in my backpack safely! I sure hope that we get to see Sandra again.

And our favorite coffee shops now know what we want when we walk in. Like I said, once it feels like home, it's time to leave.