We spent most of our morning at the immigration department working on getting our legal status here. Kind of different not having your documents to allow you to have cellular service or to contract with the cable company or use a debit card at any store. We returned home after five hours of effort and understand from a pleasant young lady who works for the South America Area Office that our Peru ID cards could be ready tomorrow with only two more hours of standing in line. She is assigned to help all of the missionaries here obtain legal status.
Following our immigration efforts we were off by taxi to Miraflores to locate spare parts for my new Panasonic razor. No such luck with parts, so we stopped at a very nice restaurant for a late lunch. I had one of my standard dishes called lomo saltado. It is stir fried tenderloin with onions and peppers served with yellow potato french fries and rice. RA had a salad with a very good sauce from the papas a la juan caihina (sp?) We are back home for the rest of the day with multiple tax rides. The drivers are almost always very friendly and we try to negotiate before you get in. I was unsuccessful with any negotiations today. It cost us 15 soles or about five dollars to ride from La Molina to Miraflores. You do not measure a trip in distance but the time it takes and the traffic load. Seemed as though it was 30 minutes going and about an hour and a half coming back. There are no meters in the taxies. You just negotiate. We explain to the driver in Spanish where we want to go, ask him the price, try to negotiate and then jump in. Traffic in Lima is quit an adventure though we are getting used to it. The taxis are well used but they keep them going and get every last mile out of them. Many have been converted to LNG as Peru seems to have an abundance of that resource.
The people are always friendly and the food very good.
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