La Luna de Miel Larga

We got back yesterday from five days in Lima, where we had Thanksgiving lunch on Friday and presentations on Monday with the Fulbright Commission.

We spent Thursday afternoon running back and forth to the computer store that will send Chris’s busted power cord to the U.S. and then send us a replacement cord. Everyone keep your fingers crossed on this one! We also ended up at a grocery store that looks like Whole Foods, where we drooled over the cheese selection but just had to buy New Zealand cheddar because that’s what I was really craving. (Its hard to get cheese variety here.) We were all set to have a dinner of bread and cheese when some other Fulbright fellows knocked on our door and invited us out to dinner with them. Friday we met more of the fellows at the lunch, but were surprised by how fancy the meal was and how many other random people there were: dignitaries from the embassy, past Peruvian fellows, business people somehow affiliated with the Commission. Friday afternoon we spent hanging out and then out to dinner.

Saturday we had planned to travel but got a late start so instead went to the Anthropology Museum and to see a movie (Beowulf). Saturday night we had dinner at an overpriced Mexican restaurant but we were pleasantly surprised to get chips before our meal (we are having trouble finding tortilla chips, or tortillas at all for that matter). Sunday we went to the Plaza de Armas (the main plaza) and went on a tour of a church with catacombs and to the Inquisition museum.

Monday was five hours of presentations on our various research, with discussants from anthropology, mining, and economics. The afternoon was again spent hanging out and eating dinner with all the other fellows.

We are happy to report that returning to altitude after only being gone five days was uneventful. We have a meeting today to sign a contract for our new apartment…we are supposed to be moving next Friday.

1. Carol Says:
   November 29th, 2007 at 10:29 pm

   It’s fun to check in on your blog – it gives a nice sense of what you’re doing there.

   We missed you both at Thanksgiving. We were 27 at the
   table(s). It was great to have Alex, Rebecca and Jesse here, and of course the rest of the family that could make it. Napa was fun, with great weather and good food and company, though not as much game playing as last year.

   Tony, Jesse and I will be going down to L.A. to spend Christmas with Tony’s family and Rebecca’s family. As you must know, it gets complicated when families merge, but so far we’ve got events scheduled pretty well going back and forth between the two sides.

   Keep up the blogging!

2. Hatrrtiett Gross Says:
   December 13th, 2007 at 6:46 pm

   am enjoying your blogs

   love Aunt Harriett

3. grandma and grandpa Says:
   January 31st, 2008 at 7:50 pm

   dearest grandchildren
   It’s so wonerful to finally get on frequency. I’m pretty confused but getting better. You will hear more from us when we get caught up.Glad you are both fine—so are we in warm florida
   More later
   Much love from both of us to both of you