I woke at 3am and went browsing through the laptop . . suddenly a small box opened up and it said " Warren says Hi Dad". The nicest treat I could have imagined. I realised that what I have really been missing is to sit with him on the beachfront at Doddy's with cappucinos and a Florentine. We had a nice chat and its a pity I cant stay up till 1.10am tomorrow to "watch" the Eagles game with him.
We arose at 8.30, to find that Anna wasnt up yet and the house was full of Americans. 4 of them arrived at 2am and went into the dorm we had last week. We now have a self-contained unit matrimoniale. We hd a slow walk through the empty part of town but found the Wong supermarket was open, so we bought a few bits for lunch.
Mid-evening there was a gradually-increasing noise and we realised a parade was approaching the house. It turned out to be an Easter parade, with a couple of hundred people quietly walking around the streets, most of them with shielded candles. They stopped a few doors down and did some kind of performance and then continued along in front of us. There was a car supporting some sort of sound system, with a full keyboard in the back seat and that was followed by 'Jesus' carrying his cross between 2 Roman soldiers. They stopped at the next corner and did another little performance. Anna said they had come from a nearby church and that this type of parade would be happening all over Lima today (Good Friday). She said that there would have been a 'proper' cruxifiction on Cerro St Cristobel (hill in Nth Lima) at some time today. Glad I have not witnessed that.
It had a nice feel to it and we didnt need to ask ourselves the obvious question. We are so choked with Political Correctness driven by the Multiculturalism we never asked for that we dare not be ourselves for fear of "outraging" the migrants who have brought their own hate-filled ideas with them.
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