After breakfast at Santa Maria Hotel, our team spent some time exploring Lima. We were dropped off at Plaza de Armas in Lima, with the Presidential Palace and Mayoral office, among other sights.
At 11:00, I was able to get close to get a photo of the hourly changing of the guard at the palace. At noon, there was a much more formal event with a marching band and hundreds of spectators kept at bay by barricades added after the 11:00 changing.
We went to see the catacombs but they were not open until noon.
The various museums had new displays.
It was a real contrast to see Santa Claus and reindeer on the plaza, surrounded by flowers in bloom.
The mayor's office has a plaque remembering the independence of Peru and noting that UNESCO has recognized the city.
Several of the streets that leave the plaza are pedestrian only.
Just this year, one of those side streets, Pasaje Olaya, was designated as "Gastronomic Boulevard."
Before heading off to a nice lunch, we took a group photo.
After a sumptuous lunch at a Chinese restaurant, we rode to Cañete. Our very nice hotel looks out on a park surrounded by homes and a few small businesses.
On the second floor, there is a very nice lounge.
Meals for the week are in a building where Xenon lives, only two short blocks from the hotel. At our first dinner, we celebrated Gilberts birthday.
After dinner, Eddy, Alain and I went out for a walk to explore the town. We went to Imperial Park which is surrounded by stores and a cathedral.
Once back at the hotel, I tried to take a photo of the hotel so that if we got lost in the future, we could simply show a taxi driver the hotel photo and tell the driver it was on Calle Raymondi.
Oscar, the owner and operator of our private hotel (only Fuller Center team members are lodged here) saw us and so he turned the lights on.
Monday was our first day of work. Before breakfast and work, I took a walk around the neighborhood. Diagonally across the street was this nice looking house for sale; at 250 square meters, it is clearly a home large enough to be in the USA.
On the way to breakfast, I passed several schools.
Even though we are in the desert, people try to beautify their front yards.
Here is another large attractive house.
After breakfast, we headed to La Florida, made a quick stop at the Fuller Center Office and then split into two groups. Eight of us went to a house that had the foundation and footings for the walls in place and began building the brick walls on top of the concrete footings.
Besides bringing in bricks, there was a lot of mixing sand and cement by hand, eight buckets of sand with one 42.5 kilogram bag of cement.
The house is long and narrow and there will be exterior walls that nearly touch the exterior wals of the adjoining houses. Only exterior walls were being built Monday.
The other eight members of our team were working on the other house which had the walls completed and needed the roof put on.
After a full day in the sun, we returned to our hotel, had dinner and then some of us went for a walk. I still do not understand how they name the districts, towns and provinces here, but we are close to the cent of the town of Imperial. Several of us went for a walk after dinner and among other places, walked by the main square of Imperial. We also found a spot to get some small ice cream treats, including ice cream sandwiches.
At 11:00, I was able to get close to get a photo of the hourly changing of the guard at the palace. At noon, there was a much more formal event with a marching band and hundreds of spectators kept at bay by barricades added after the 11:00 changing.
We went to see the catacombs but they were not open until noon.
The various museums had new displays.
It was a real contrast to see Santa Claus and reindeer on the plaza, surrounded by flowers in bloom.
The mayor's office has a plaque remembering the independence of Peru and noting that UNESCO has recognized the city.
Several of the streets that leave the plaza are pedestrian only.
Just this year, one of those side streets, Pasaje Olaya, was designated as "Gastronomic Boulevard."
Before heading off to a nice lunch, we took a group photo.
After a sumptuous lunch at a Chinese restaurant, we rode to Cañete. Our very nice hotel looks out on a park surrounded by homes and a few small businesses.
On the second floor, there is a very nice lounge.
Meals for the week are in a building where Xenon lives, only two short blocks from the hotel. At our first dinner, we celebrated Gilberts birthday.
After dinner, Eddy, Alain and I went out for a walk to explore the town. We went to Imperial Park which is surrounded by stores and a cathedral.
Oscar, the owner and operator of our private hotel (only Fuller Center team members are lodged here) saw us and so he turned the lights on.
On the way to breakfast, I passed several schools.
Even though we are in the desert, people try to beautify their front yards.
Here is another large attractive house.
After breakfast, we headed to La Florida, made a quick stop at the Fuller Center Office and then split into two groups. Eight of us went to a house that had the foundation and footings for the walls in place and began building the brick walls on top of the concrete footings.
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| This shaded area is behind the house and the bamboo wall to the left is where the family now lives |
Besides bringing in bricks, there was a lot of mixing sand and cement by hand, eight buckets of sand with one 42.5 kilogram bag of cement.
The other eight members of our team were working on the other house which had the walls completed and needed the roof put on.
After a full day in the sun, we returned to our hotel, had dinner and then some of us went for a walk. I still do not understand how they name the districts, towns and provinces here, but we are close to the cent of the town of Imperial. Several of us went for a walk after dinner and among other places, walked by the main square of Imperial. We also found a spot to get some small ice cream treats, including ice cream sandwiches.
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