OK again another nutshell with bare minimums. Its 11 pm and Iwe have a 6 am wake-up call. LOL - its so weird trying to type on this keyboard. Although I´m getting used to the new locations.

So, after my first blog, Steve and I decided to try our adventure guides again, Ernesto and Armando but AGAIN, no dice. This time the front desk left me hanging in th lobby for 20 minutes. By the time that we ended up leaving, I was frustrated because we had no information on breakfast (which is supposed to be included the following morning) and Steve wanted to leave to "check-out" Atlantice City - LOL - the casino that is. For folks, it seems that gambling is legal here. On our earlier walk we came across no less than 8 casinos. All pretty small compared to Vegas standards but casinos nonetheless. So Steve by this time was a little ticked and I graciously decided to accommodate him by attending with him. We hit Atlantic City casino and while Steve did ok at first, he left the first table when he noticed that in a 6-deck shoe - they would arbitiarily (however you spell it) put back a deck once one was used. Sides, there was this "cooler" guy that kept surrendering on every hand causing everyone else to lose. So since they are affiliaed with Bally´s Gambling, they were not hot (and they only used American dollars) this after we just spent all afternoon trying to accumulate Soles. LOL

So, Steve moves to another 2 shoe deck table and does REALLY well until "The Cooer! comes to that table. Needless to say he was pissed and lost his money. So to calm him down we hit Larco street again - this time the other way and we discovered - "The Hacienda" and my oh my - I should never have left Vegas. I finally found a video poker machine and in under 20 minutes I hit 5 4 of a kinds. I was playing on some machine not even knowing what denomination it was but I figure I did good because I hit Aces, 10s, 2s and 9s twice. So imagine my surprise when I put in 10 Soles and came out with 200 Soles. The machine was hot. So now I know where Vegas gets rid of the ping machines. Then Steve, who was playing at the $5 Sole table (La hacienda takes Soles) came out $200 ahead. So since they use the old-fashioned kind whee you have silver coins, your hands get dirty. We decided to play the $1 machine where yours truly hits another 4 of a kind. So we decided to hit and run. We cashed in for just over $1000 Soles which is about or just over $300. Not bad for about $220 US dollars combined. HEE HEE HEE, my contribution was the $20.

So walking back to our hotel, we hit China Wok and I must of been really hungry because not only did I eat all my food but I beat Steve to it. I had Arroz Choufa con pollo, (chicken fried rice) and sweet & sour pork, with ramen and bamboo shoots with bok choy. It was actually pretty yummy. According to our driver last night, Lima has a large settlement of Chinese which actually settled here over 200 years ago. Anyways, food was good and for Steve and I it was $39.6 soles which comes out to about $15. Food is pretty comparable and maybe just slightly better than the states. So for an evening that looked to be starting out bad, we came out ahead.

LOL - I just had to pop in here as I`m not sure I can get on tomorrow. It will be hectic. e got our ift and it was a lanyard with a bag and luggage tags. Oh yeah, upon our return, we got a note from Armando saying he was told we were trying to get a hold of him - well duh! OK - sarcasm out. I´m tired and I guess that - ok I have no idea why this darn `works right one time and the other it doesn´t . I´m going to blame it on the Peruvian keyboard. That´s my story and I´m sticking to it. ROTFL

OK folks, more to come later, stay tuned......I wonder if there are more casinos alter. BTW, to send one postcard to the States it take 2 stamps for a total of $5 soles. which comes out to about ...oh I don´t know you do the math. All I know is that $15 is $5 US dollars. Its late and I got to brush my teeth. I´m not known for getting up early (understatement of the year) and we have to get up by 6. Bags to be out our door at 6:45 and on the bus to the airport by 7:45. I wonder if any of you will take bets as to who will be late?

By the way, on our Europe trip earlier this year, I was never late. I´m not counting the time we got left behind in the Vatican because that was not my fault. The guide told us to go to the bathroom and then proceeded to leave 2 teachers, my oldest daughter and myself behind! Humph! Told you it wasn´t my fault!

OK folks, nitey night.