Where have I been the last month and a half?

The second weekend of October I went to an Artisan Fair at the US Embassay in Lima with my weavers. It was a lot of fun because almost all of the small business development group was there. It was really great to see everybody and to be all together again. BUT, each one of us had our counterparts with us from our organizations and it was pretty much a week a full out babysitting them. Imagine bringing some county folk down from the mountains and into the big city! They didn't know what to do with themselves. Freddie's counterpart was afraid to cross the street in Lima and refrused to stay in the hostel alone. She insisted on coming to dinner with us and when we went to go grab a drink afterwards, she totally fell asleep at the bar. Ahhh, perfect solution.... take her home, put her to sleep and then head back out!

The fair was great from a business perspective. My group sold about 2000 soles with of products making them the organization with the highest sales. BUT the fair was half inside and half outside and of course my group got stuck outside in the freezing cold wet drizzly crappy weather of Lima. By the end of the day I was so exhauseted from standing up all day and being wet and cold I slept like a baby on my overnight bus ride home.