Friday, May 22, 2009

5/21/09 visiting the markets

A shelf of yarn in a yarn store

Bags of grains in the San Pedro Market


After class, we walked over the San Pedro Market. It is about 6 blocks away from the Plaza de Armas, which is the center of the city. We noticed that the farther away we got from the Plaza de Armas the less tourist-y it was. In the San Pedro Market there were rows of stalls selling pretty much everything under a huge tent that took up a whole city block. There were rows and rows of smoothie and juice booths, rows of stalls where you could eat lunch, butcher stalls, fruit and vegetable stalls, grain stalls, stalls of spices, stalls that had kitchen utensils, and a few stalls with tourist-y stuff. After looking around we decided to leave and walk to an artisan market about a mile away. 

When we got outside we walked down a block and noticed that we were in the cloth and sewing store section. We looked around in the stores and found one that had 100% alpaca wool yarn. We got two of the alpaca wool (one in light gray and one in dark) for crocheting a scarf or something similar. 

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