PIJAMADA!

Yesterday was Saturday which meant I got to hang out with Nini and her family. Even though Nini had a cold, she still wanted to go forward with the sleepover. I don't think anything can stop her :) Sarah came with as well to meet Nini's daughters and husband. We first tried to find this cafe that sells alfajores in Miraflores that Celeste told us about. The adventure part came in at the fact that she couldn't remember the name of the cafe. One minor detail . . . we were saving the alfajores for Sunday morning, after the sleepover . . . and completely forgot about them! Oops, maybe next weekend :) Doraliz, Nini's daughter, had to work until 11pm so the pijamada started without her, but Anabelen and her friend Maria Pia were there so the 4 of us were able to do enough damage early on. It was really nice to be able to hang out with other girls my age for the night and still be able to practice Spanish. Around 2am I broke out a little culture lesson and made Smores in the microwave for everyone. Peru apparently doesn't have graham crackers (I looked everywhere!!) so I settled for these vanilla flavored ones. Chocolate bars are also hard to come by so a bag of Hershey kisses stood in. Max, Nini's husband, as well as all the girls had never heard of Smores before. They all loves the makeshift version and were quite astounded when I explained how they are normally made, over a campfire. And I must say, I didn't blow up a single marshmallow, talent, I know.

Of course we all slept maybe 4 hours so by morning we were very tired. After breakfast we were trying to figure out what to do. Somehow our boredom turned into a full fledged pillow and blanket war. I wouldn't call it a pillow fight because we weren't just hitting each other with them, we were launching them across the room, and diving behind couches. Even managed to break a glass (Maria Pia!!), not to name names. :) All in all, it was a night full of movies, sugar coated snacks, laughter, Nini taking a ton of photos, and of course no boys allowed!!