Last Day in Peru

This is our last day in Peru. We are leaving for the airport at 5 pm so we have
time to go shopping for last minute gifts and visit the chocolate museum to do
a workshop. Yum Yum!

We went to the San Pedro market one last time. We bought our travel blanket,
a few trinkets, and off we went to look for a stamp. You see, we like to send
ourselves a postcard whenever we travel. It’s nice to receive it once you are
home and settled back in.  You should try it! Anyways, it took like what
seemed forever to find a store that had stamps. Every store that supposedly
sold stamps were closed.

You see, Sunday’s here are something else. There is always a celebration
of some kind: it can be religious, related to school, like today, or just to
have one I guess! We did find a shop that had stamps so we bought our
postcard and stamp and mailed it.  We had a bit of time for lunch. Peru is
not Canada. People fight for your business here! We had two women
running after us with their menus. One was quite aggressive towards the
other talking over her, pushing her, covering her menu. I just said whoa!
I will look at both menus and then decide but you both need to get out of
my face. We went to the restaurant of the less aggressive women.
I’m thankful Canada is not like this! It would drive me crazy! Remi had an alpaca burger and I ate his fries.

It was time for our chocolate workshop. Yummy! Sophie, Melissa and Liz
joined us. We first learned about the whole process. This lesson was
followed by us making different drinks, roasted and crushed beans, and
poured and decorated our chocolates.

funny washroom sign at chocolate museum

Once that was done it was unfortunately time to head back to the hotel
to grab our bags to get to the airport.

We now sitting in the airport, reflecting on this amazing adventure.

Seems like there’s an emergency problem at the airport in Lima.
No flights are leaving. We should hear soon what’s going on.

still having a good sense of humour

Update! Flight is canceled. It’s about 8 pm I guess. Everyone that works
for Latam Air seems to have disappeared into thin air (funny how that happens).
They did give us a phone number to call before disappearing… Yeah... OK…
Call with what? And of course, the three other canceled flights are calling
as well, no way to get through. Paul was able to reach Carly our travel
agent in Canada. She did what she could and passed it on to the manager.
He was not much help.  Here in Cusco, you are kicked out of the airport
at 12am -whether you have a place to stay or not. Odd isn’t it?

We were able to reach Magical tours, the Peruvian company that organize
things here.  They sent us this young fellow to help us. Poor kid felt so bad!
It wasn’t his fault… Meanwhile, Liz managed to get us booked on a flight
to Lima for tomorrow afternoon, at least we will be one step closer to home.

By 12 AM magical tours had found us a hotel and moved us there the night.
It sure was beautiful. Let’s see what tomorrow will bring. Will we be stuck in
Lima? Or will there be room on the flight to Toronto? Time will tell.