The Fort

Emily the half birthday girl

Rebekah loves noodles!

The harbor at Callao

Eric, Rebekah and Elijah in the highest turret at the fort

A view of the harbor from the fort

El Real Felipe

National Police Memorial

Outside of the fort

February 20

From Sue

Today we went to tour a fort along the coast called El Real Felipe. It was built in the mid 1700's to protect the coast from pirates. It is in a district called Callao (Kiyow) which is where the airport is located, so it was kind of a long taxi ride. We had to wait for the tour and walked around and found a national police memorial. We took some pictures for Uncle Bill and then headed to the tour. The fort is a large, brick structure guarded by soldiers. We went in and bought our tickets and did not hear the words we wanted to hear. English tour. It was all in Spanish and I personally picked up about a dozen words in 2 hours. We saw many weapons and uniforms and it was very historically rich; Eric says so anyway! We went into a room and there was a pirate behind a rope up on a platform pretending to be a mannequin. He waited until people were close and taking pictures and then yelled at them. The people nearby screamed and he started on his act of being a pirate. We did not get much of what was said. He started giving orders and we just tried to stay in the back and go along as best as we could. Apparently, he was quite humorous judging by the others in the group. Carolyn said she just pretended to laugh when everyone else did. We went to the top of a turret and could see 360 degrees around the fort. Since it was near the port, it was a beautiful sight. It was also a within sight of some slums. We walked to the plaza at the port and could see a huge cargo ship coming into the harbor. We then took a taxi to Larcomar and went to one of our favorite restaurants, the Chifa (Chinese) place we go to on the mission trips, to celebrate Emily's half birthday. It was delicious! We are tired and sunburned but we enjoyed our day as a family!