That night, we went to a pena called Rompe y Raja. SO MUCH FUN. Live music, live dancing and muchos bebidas! Monica ordered a few plates of lomo saltado (sautéed beef, onions and tomatoes over rice and papas fritas.) Looking back, this was the best lomo saltado I had eaten in Peru. After a few hours of dancing and watching performers, I was pulled on to the dance floor with Leslie to participate in a traditional Peruvian dance called Alcatraz. The dance involves one person dancing with a rag or napkin in the back pocket of your pants while your partner tries to light it on fire. The point is to shake your booty so they can’t light the napkin on fire. It was really tough! I could NOT catch that guy! I am, however, an expert booty shaker thanks to my years of dance training so he couldn’t catch me either! After catching our breath, everyone flooded the dance floor and they dropped balloons from the ceiling and I danced until about 1AM. I can’t remember the last time I danced so much. What a fun night! Why don’t we have penas in The States?! I plan on writing a formal letter to President Obama demanding the implementation of mandatory fun at penas!

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