THE FOOD FAIR ON THE BEACH AT MIRA FLORES

We went to a great food fair called Mistura, with the Cardons and Adams.  We were not sure what to expect, but were pleasantly surprised!  Enjoy the colors and textures of Peruvian Food!

The first tent was full of chocolate companies, trying to get you to sample their choices!  Yum!!!

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This chocolate booth was from the jungles of Iquitos

 Flavored chocolates shaped like Sushi!  WOW!  I bought some!

 Check out the Inca warrior.

 Chocolate hats!

Lots of fruit flavors.

 They have wonderful desserts here and we were in heaven!

 Marilyn and Julie

Their are 80 different varieties of potatoes and they are most colorful.

Julie and Darryl are asking about all the different kinds!

This sweet hermana was selling manjar blanco, which is like carmel and great on ice cream and cookies!

There were many bakeries selling bread

Avacados are tree ripened and fabulous!

There were many booths displaying pots and dishes to cook and serve the food!

The honey was very sweet!

Another great bakery to enjoy!

We also enjoyed seeing the wonderful native dress from all over Peru!

Some fancy needle work showing farm life!

This is one huge loaf of bread!

 The cheese man!

A group of musicians entertained the crowd

Beef and grains!

 

 This sweet little hija was having fun at the fair!

The crowd at the fair and you can see the famous cliffs at Mirafloras!

 

The guys had a great time sampling and seeing the different foods!

A jungle group of dancers performed and look closely for the two snakes being held by this brave woman!

We enjoyed talking to this young man!

More yummy breads

Lots of great foods, people, music and dancing!

Colorful refrigerator magnets!

More dancing and music!

CULTURAL NIGHT AT SWAN LAKE BALLET, THE CIRCUS, AND TANGO DANCING

July became our cultural month, as we attended Swan Lake, the circus, and a tango performance.  Several missionary couples joined us for the festive evenings!  This is really tough duty in Lima and we are loving every minute of our weekends and P-days!  We put in full days and sometimes late evenings and are seeing sick missionaries everyday.  Steve is, also, answering calls all day long.  So, on the weekends, we get to change our schedules and enjoy the sights, sounds, and smells of Lima with other senior missionaries and our other Peruvian friends.

We attended Swan Lake Ballet at the beautiful National Theater and enjoyed the color changes of the outside!  Eric would really enjoy the architecture of this beautiful building.  It's by far, the nicest theater we have ever attended!

It was amazing to see the color changes from red...to purple...to pink!

Steve is sitting in back of the Cardons, the Burts, and the Adams!  The ballet was superb and the princaples were fantastic and there was a full orchestra, too!

   

 We are waiting in line for the circus to start in Churillos, South of Lima, and Julie is saving our place!

This is the "Big Top" and when you enter I feels very spacious inside.  They only had horses for animals, but the high flying acts were awesome and it turned out to be very entertaining!

Time to enter for showtime!

 This little guy was totally entertaining!

 Every seat was filled and once the show began there was no photos allowed!

The circus was set up in a mall parking lot and we are returning after getting ice cream.

 We all had a great time!

The next weekend we had dinner at a gourmet hamburger house and then went to see a tango show and demonstration and the two-man band was very good!