Our last day in Trujillo was spent shopping. Matt took his 50 soles and bought at cajon and case for 59. So, he paid $2.50 of his money and $17.50 of some unknown drunks' to get the cajon. I guess I should say what a cajon is. It is a box. like a guitar, it has a hole on one side and you play it like a bongo drum, but it has a bass sound and a snare drum sound. In Quito they cost $220! He was pretty happy about this.
We bought things for Julie and Katie and Thomas and Bryan and our last stop was to a supermarket for Peruvian foods that we could take back. A stock boy passed us and I think Matt and I realized at the same time. The man who worked a the hamburger stand and knew all about us? He was not a taxi driver after all. He was Moises (in picture). Moises was a stockboy at the Merpisa supermarket near our house in Trujillo. He went with me to buy our Christmas tree, he was at our house. It has been at least 5 years since I saw him and instead of an 18 year old boy, he is a grown (fat) man!
Matt and I left the store and walked across the street to where I PRAYED he was working. I said, "Man, I am so sorry. I did not know it was you." He laughed and said, "yeah, I got pretty fat!" I was so glad to realize it when I could.
That has kind of been the story of our trip. We saw so many people and instead of missing them by 5 minutes, we caught them by 5. We left that night with Tito who was heading to Guayaquil to pick up volunteers. At Tumbes, I saw Mauricio who was a major help in Tumbes and also Jose Olaya and Eliana de Chavez. We rode on to Guayaquil and caught a plane home to Quito. Hey, even got the Father's month discount becuase I was travelling with Matt!
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