Day 4 of confinement in Lima

Last evening, our tour director announced that we at last had a flight, Saturday morning. A chartered LATAM flight to Miami.  Which means that this was our last day. Somehow, that made it a bit tougher. Until now, we tried to just make the best of things, but today seemed to just last too long.

But we still managed to have some fun:  at 6:30 pm, we all met in front of the lobby and brought all the booze everyone had left over, for a cocktail party (which definitely broke the "no more than 10 people at a time " rule, but we have been together for 2 weeks..... by now, we all have each other’s germs.....)

I, of course, took my usual walk to the pharmacy and the supermarket. The police told a member of our group that we should wear masks when we go out. So I put all my Spanish together to ask
"donde puedo comprar una mascaria"?  Even though Peruvians are very nice, kind and polite, she had a very hard time not laughing at me for thinking that there were any masks for sale anywhere.... but the supermarket, which yesterday afternoon was looking low on potatoes (that’s a very serious situation in Peru!) had restocked. Again everyone was calm and disciplined. 

I keep being impressed with how nice everyone is, and how clean the city is.  In fact, the people who clean the streets are still working as diligently as ever.  (Note:  I thought that was maybe because we are in a fancy part of town, but I’m writing this from the airplane and as we drove back to the airport- an hour drive away through other parts of town, it was the same everywhere).

Also, I need to give a shoutout to the wonderful staff at the Westin. They again moved the gym equipment, to a nice balcony overlooking the street, just because it’s nicer there.  They are doing everything they can to keep us happy and very well fed, and they all been sweet, and are exuding calm. I’m very impressed. 

So here is one last 🤞🤞sunset, from the 29th floor bar, over Lima.