Saturday, October 31, 2009

Carving the first pumpkin

The only pumpkin I could find in Pacasmayo was this white one. It cost me 2 soles or $0.65. Anyway here is the pumpkin before they all went crazy.


Rolling up the sleves

Getting slimy
Pulling out the snot.



Jose has a handful
Carving the pumpkin was a lot of fun, I'll have to take some pictures of the final product when it's all lit up tonight. No one here ever carves pumpkins or does anything on Halloween because they all believe it is and evil day, and that if you have any fun you are pretty much worshiping demons or whatever. I'm trying to break that dogma.

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Monday, October 19, 2009

Feast

Well it only took me 5 months, but I've figured out how I might be able to not loose so much weight down here.

I have finally found out how I can get about 2000 calories for $4. Here's the trick. I found a hamburger stand that cooks the patties in cooking oil. They make me the special which includes 2 meat patties (I'd like to say beef but....) that are about the size of Winstead's burgers and a fried egg in between, they top this with a bunch of mayonnaise and hot sauce. This is where it gets good though, after I buy that hamburger for 2 soles I start walking to the chicken place and eating the hamburger on the way. I finish it just in time as I'm walking into the resturant. I order a 1/4 chicken to go. With that 1/4 chicken to go comes a large order of fries, a salad and more mayonnaise. I can also get a coke there too. The chicken and coke costs 10 soles.

So thats a total of 12 soles or roughly $4. I guess if you include the moto rides its $5. And if I want to really pig out I can get a kabob of cooked chicken hearts for another 1 sol. Speaking of which I had my first chicken heart kabob a couple of days ago. It really wasn't that bad.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Pics


I had a request for some more random pictures so here they are. Also I just bought some plane tickets to come home in November and stay until December. So if you would like to here stories in person all you need to do is take me to lunch some where.

Yum noodles
I PITTY THE FOOL


Playing with Blacky
Her face when I tell her to smile
The boyz table (Also with the cook Gladys posing)