La Boda y La Cena

On Saturday night we went to the wedding of my coworker. It was quite interesting. First of all, it was in an Anglican church, and all the publications in the church--e.g. the monthly newsletter, etc.--were in English, which was kind of funny to see. But the wedding itself wasn't Anglican--the couple is evangelico (baptist maybe?), and it was by far the most religious wedding I have ever been to. So I don't know if this is standard at baptist weddings, but there was a lot of singing and it was really beautiful. The couple sang a duet together--a long one, not just a few lines--and then their attendants sang another long song while they had a private communion ceremony. It seemed very personal, and I enjoyed it I think more than I would have enjoyed an uber-religious wedding in english. Ironically, I was the only person from the office to actually see the couple get married. There were way more invitees than could actually fit in the church (despite the fact that I think they rented the Anglican church because it was the biggest one they could find), and so everyone who showed up after about 7:05 was out the door. The ceremony was scheduled to start at 7, it actually started around 7:15, and although at least 150 peruanos managed to show up on time, none of them were my coworkers. Now, it didn't surprise me so much that my officemates were late, because they are also friends of the groom's from college and they were invited to the reception afterwards, but I'm pretty sure the other 5 people who missed the ceremony were not going to the reception, and that I just don't understand--why get all dressed up and drive across town just to miss the event and turn around and go home? I'm glad we showed up at the hora gringa.
And I'm also glad we had dinner plans! Our fancy dinner was delicious, although not quite only $30 a person with pisco sours and a bottle of our favorite Chilean wine :-) But it was fun going out to dinner all dressed up and eating great food. Too bad we can't do it more often, even at Peruvian prices.
Sunday afternoon we headed down a suburban part of Lima on the coast, and enjoyed walking around and stuffing ourselves on ceviche. Especially since we had (uh, have) no food in the house. It was a nice little mini-excursion on a relaxed Sunday afternoon. Hopefully next weekend we'll do something similar.
Finally, we caught some of the Oscars on TV. It was partially really funny and partially really annoying to watch them dubbed "en vivo"--it was annoying because you could still hear the english under the dubbing and it was distracting, but it was funny to listen to the spanish-language commentary. I was all set to wonder if the awards would affect the black market price of Brokeback DVDs on the streets of Lima, since we still haven't seen it, but since it didn't win it's probably moot. I have no interest in seeing Crash.
Ug, for some reason I've been really tired all day, so I'll quit my rambling and try to post some pictures tomorrow.