Nourish goes to Peru

As Kat mentioned in her post, this past weekend the annual fiesta de San Pedro took place in Huanchaco. In addition to the dancing and festivities of Saturday evening, there was an impressive parade on Sunday as part of the celebration. The main point of the parade is the symbolic march of San Pedro de Huanchaco from the church to the beach, where he floats out to sea in a giant caballito de totora. I was able to march along with San Pedro (who was being carried atop his float) for most of the way along the road from the church to the beach. After reaching the beach, we went to the pier to make sure we could get a good view of San Pedro’s ocean voyage. We waited for about half an hour, as San Pedro was carefully lowered into the caballito and those aboard prepared for the send off. Finally, San Pedro was sent to sea, accompanied by several local Peruvians, including Miss Huanchaco and a nun. The group sailed to the edge of the pier, then turned around and came back to shore. It was great.