Sorry Ferdinand!!

Well, I have to explain the post title first off. After we finished building in Casablanca, we spent a few days of rest and relaxation in a holiday resort called Casada de las Animas, about an hour and a half hour´s drive from Santiago. We had a great time zip-lining and trekking and not being able to white-water raft there.

But potentially the best thing about it was that we had the most gorgeous encounter with a baby alpaca there. Apparently its parents were taken away and it cried for 2 days (the owners took it to the vet thinking there was something wrong with it, but the vet said he was just sad.) Potentially the cutest thing alive, I called him (although we think it was actually a her), Ferdinand:

Given that I only ever write about food on here, why am I talking about Ferdinand? Well, I´m now in Cusco, Peru, where alpaca can be eaten in almost every restaurant here (guinea pig is also very popular, although very expensive!), so of course I had to try some!!!

The location of the crime was at Chez Maggy, a pizzeria on Gringo Alley. I had my first pisco sour in Peru (not as good as in Chile), and the alpaca was called in a pisco sauce with quinoa on the side. The pisco sauce was rather sweet, and the whole thing tasted a bit like char siu:

I dread to think whether I ate one of Ferdinand´s parents, but I comforted myself with the fact that I had ordered it, and it was tasty, rather than I had ordered it, and it wasn´t tasty. If that makes any sense.

Anyway, I await abusive emails from Team Lovin´It upon this news. I miss you all guys!!