A week in the life of KTP (a post for another day).

So I prepared a wonderful blog post that was going to have photos of the places that I go to often - my wonderful apartment in Miraflores, the friendly doorman, my fantastic coffee shop Sama, my grocery store Metro, my corner bodega, my salon where we get manicures and pedicures for $8, my combi stop, the boys from the orphanage, etc. However, last Sunday I went to the annual culinary festival at Parque de Lima (it was similar to a Ribfest in the States where restaurants sell smaller portions of their best meals and you get to sample ALL of them) with my friend Romina and her cousins. After a whole day of eating delicious Peruvian dishes, like risotto, fried pork, and cerviche, eating desserts, like queso helado, drinking Pisco sours, getting interviewed by a local television station, getting the famous Gaston's signature in my "Native Potatoes of Peru" book, and shopping at the market where people were selling specialty items from all over Peru, my camera was stolen.
Stolen. Just like that, gone.
It was a little deja vu as less than four years ago when I was at the Olympics in Italy my camera was stolen out of my bag when I was on a bus after the short-track speed skating event. I was devastated then and I am devasted now.
We reported it to the police who were nearby who were sympathetic but said there is nothing they can do. Romina escorted me to my combi but I was hesitant to get on, hoping desperately that if I stayed around the park maybe I would find the thief. The light was about to turn green so I said goodbye to Romina and got on and rode home, very frustrated and ticked off. How could I be so dumb? Why didn't I put my camera back in my bag and not in my pocket where some 4'11" 40-something red-head Peruvian woman could take it? Didn't I learn anything from the last time? How am I supposed to get a new camera?

Well after beating myself up for a while I decided to look on the positive side. 1) I'm pretty good about uploading photos on a weekly basis so only the photos for this post were lost. 2) My camera was a little outdated. It was a Canon A710 with only 6 megapixels and a 10x zoom. Not shabby but there are better ones out there. 3) I have plenty of great memories and an overstuffed stomach to remember the day by and plus now I have something to write home about and maybe this will make a good "Christmas and Birthday" gift from my parents as both holidays are close together and tend to mesh into one anyways.
Hasta luego.