Day 17 Lima, Peru

Bill was not feeling well yesterday when we came back from our great tour so we went to see the doctor.  He actually had 101 fever and the doctor gave him antibiotics and cough medicine.  He asked if he should go to the nighttime tour we had today and the dr said if you well good you can go if not call the office and I will give you a note (so that we would not be charged for it)

Bill was not well enough to go down to dinner last night so I had room service also.  He had soup and a sandwich and I had soup and a chicken caesar salad

since I wasn’t feeling great either.

Bill is still not feeling well I was up early and read.  Bill

decided he wanted to eat breakfast in the dining room so we headed down as we docked in Callao/Lima Peru.  We watched from the window as the crew set up the gangway and everything needed for our stay here.  As we headed into the cove there was Pat sitting by herself so we went over to say hello.  Bill headed up to lie down I we have not bought anything yet!  We headed to the Bistro for our tea break and then I left to check on Bill.  His fever we think finally broke because he was soaking wet.  We have the dinner and tour tonight and I think he shouldn’t go but he wants to try so I will let him sleep until about 5:00pm.

Bill was a real trooper.  We are in Lima but the Callao section and we are depending on traffic it could take 1 hr. to get to downtown Lima.  Traffic here is awful.  We had our tour and arrived at Casa Solar de Aliaga located in the heart of the historical center.   Don Jeronimo de Aliago, cofounder of Lima and founder of the first university in the Americas built this namesake residence.  It has also earned the recognition as being the Western Hemisphere’s oldest household in continuous occupation since it was constructed in 1535, this has been home to 17 generations of the Aliaga family.   After our tour the bus dropped us off by the government building and we had a ½ block walk.  As we reached the huge wooden doors, Bill says we were here last time we were in Lima we had lunch here.  And sure enough we did.  It is an unbelievable home with a courtyard with a huge tree in the middle.  We remembered that the lunch was good!  We arrived in and were greeted by waiters in white coats and gloves offered cocktails and canapés as we walked room to room through this beautiful Spanish style Colonial home from the 1500s. 
Dinner was asparagus mouse served with an Alfred sauce on the plate, followed with fish Bill asked what kind of fish and told them that I was allergic to shellfish they said they would make me chicken.  Everything was delicious.  There was chocolate molten cake for dessert.  Wines were flowing.  It was one mans birthday so they even had a birthday cake for him.  After tea and coffee they came out with all types of after dinner drinks.

Asparagas Mouse over Alfredo sauce wonderful.

My chicken which was so full of flavor

It was time to leave and for blocks and blocks as far as the eye could see there were fire trucks lined up with their lights going and sirens.  We didn’t see any smoke but our tour guide called to find out what was going on this was after 9pm well they were parading to the Catholic church of St. Rose of Lima to be blessed.  I certainly hope no one needed a fire truck as they were all at church being blessed!  Heading back to the ship there was traffic everywhere and this little car decided to cut right in front of the bus the women in the car was screaming and so close I don’t know how our driver avoided hitting them.  They did a u-turn on the highway and cut across 4 lanes of traffic right in front of us.  Amazing no one was killed.  Crazy drivers.  We are here till 9pm tomorrow but not sure if we will go back into downtown Lima as we want to use the free Wi-Fi at the port to face time with the kids as it is the same time zone.  When I was in third grade I read a book about an exchange student that was from Lima and I always wanted to come here being a little girl in Brooklyn I thought that would be awesome to visit Lima.  We were here in 9 or 10 or 11 can’t remember and I loved it then and I love it now except for their drivers!  Makes NY/NJ drivers look good even makes those Mass. drivers look good!  Again it reminds me how fortunate I am to be able to travel to these places.  We have been blessed. So once again good night and God bless.

Downtown Lima