Exploring Chiclayo

During the afternoon, we spent some time wandering around Chiclayo. Lunch was spent at at very local looking restaurant. We ate chicken soup, fried chicken, peas, rice, and fresh pear juice for about $0.85 CAN / each. Mary and I thought that was a pretty good deal. The waitress was very happy when we tipped her $0.30 (It was the least we could do to show our appreciation). After lunch, we looked for the Mercado Modelo for some time and ended up losing ourselves in the city. We approached two ladies for directions and they eventually decided to walk us to the market. They were lovely. While speaking to them, we found out that we had paid a very high price to have our laundry done. Almost 7X the regular amount (lunch was a great deal though). We finally found the market and within 5 minutes, a friendly man appeared, Alberto. I saw that he had a chess board and asked if we could play. His english was pretty good and he had ¨never played chess with a canadian man before¨. We played a game for over an hour and eventually he put me into check mate. He runs an operating service (lucotario) at the market, and was directing calls throughout the entire game (quite entertaining). His wife even called and Mary spent some time speaking with her. We ended our game, exchanged information, and said good-bye. Hopefully we will see him again.