Final Day in Pucallpa

This was supposed to be posted last night but none of the networks were working, so I am posting it now.

So today was our last full day in Pucallpa. We did even less than yesterday. Here's how the day went:

We got up and my dad was put to work cutting palm branches while I was sent to buy "platanos cerdas" (ripe bananas). Antonio, another teenage boy, went with me. We stopped at about 8 stores all through the neighborhood and surrounding area before we finally found them.

Breakfast this morning was scrambled eggs with tomatoes, onions, and a side of...you guessed it...fried bananas. (also strawberry banana smoothie).

*Nothing important enough for this blog happened in this time slot.

For lunch we went to the same resturaunt that we had dinner at the first night. We got seafood platters (see picture below) with Paiche (the really big fish I talked about yesterday), crab, crawdad, seaweed, fried corn (tasted like corn nuts), regular cooked corn, yucca, and sweet potato.

We then visited the lake near the properties that we saw yesterday (you can see it in the background of the picture of Jenny and me below) there is an island in the lake and a small outlet to the river. People travel up the river to their farms in the jungle to collect various fruits and other things that they sell on the shore of the lake. There are many shops on the shore of the lake selling products of the jungle and products for the journey to and through the jungle.

We picked up Ulysses from the house and left to visit the "Retreat center" the church has. It's basically about 3 2-acre (or so) sized lots that have many different plants on them including yucca, guava, mango, naranja, starfruit, etc. When we were there, the sun set so we got back to the church when it was dark (6:00 pm or so).

Ulysses, Eli, Me and some other guys (seen in the picture below. Ulysses is on the far left and Eli, pronounced "eh-li", is on the far right) moved the scaffolding (two stories above the ground at the top) over to a fan that was just put in whose blades were upside-down. Of course, the scaffolding was too short, and of course (like the average teenage boys) didn't want to waste time putting together the next story of scaffolding...so we put a ladder on top. You can see in the picture below that I held the ladder steady while Eli (and sometimes Ulysses as well) were on it. It took a couple hours because apparently taking blades out of a fan 3 stories off the ground and cleaning them is muy facíl, but putting them back is muy díficil.

After that (at about 9:45 pm) we had spaghetti for dinner.

Tomorrow we get up at 5 am and our flight is at 7:25 am to Lima, then to Cuzco.

Also: can anyone tell me what kind of spider is in that last picture? It is in our bathroom and I really don't want to be sleeping in a room right next to the room with a brown recluse.