Day 233 19/2/12 Carnival

Today we went to a huge outdoor market, even bigger than the usual Sunday market. It was much more interesting too with lots of second hand stuff, a bit like a huge car boot sale. We were expecting to meet Bob there as he went early with Neri but despite walking the 12 block length of the market twice we never found him. We did buy some things and have very nice apple tasting bananas, churros, yoghurt and classicos and the fruity drink chichi morada. Michael ate a glass of jelly almost as big as he is. It was extremely strong sunshine and I got sunburn on my neck and on the top of my head through my short hair. Even Rocio suffered with sunburnt ears. We went home and found Bob and Neri waiting for us. They told us that they had been attacked by the carnival. In Peru carnival involves a lot of throwing water and talcum powder at strangers and Bob had become a target for this. He told me he did get his own back. He bought his own supplies of talc and water bombs from the convenient mobile carnival supply stalls. He says that it got a lot out of hand later with people throwing not water from buckets but the empty buckets themselves, or attacking with nettles, or throwing rocks, or punches. He kept out of all that.
Here is Yandheri looking after Michael and keeping him well amused.