Saturday, June 14th was Llanchama´s 79th anniversary.  The festivities began with the raising of the Peruvian flag and the San Juan Bautista municipality´s flag.

The local school children assembled to sing the national hymn and the town´s ama mater.

And then the real festivities began with lots of music, food and games. The children´s games were first.

Egg Race

How many times can you bounce the soccer ball on your foot? The winner did it 5 times!

Others like myself unfortunately couldn´t bounce it more than once, but one girl managed to head butt the ball as well.

Can you dance cumbia and eat? Well, these kids were attempting too.

Not running with scissors, thank goodness but with paper under foot.

 Now, for a bit of sumo wrestling.  

The professors of Llanchama´s school organized all these games for the anniversary. It was a bit of a project to organize all the events and the keep track of the kids. I got to hand out the prizes, yah!

Prof. Elena with her two kids and one extra!

 Prof. Franchesca

After this we enjoyed some freshly fried fish, quinoa, aji (local chile and hot sauce – yummy).

Next, there was a soccer tournament involving the local towns but I was exhausted from all the games.

I just had some chillout time and later took a swim in the Nanay River. How refreshing!

And no, I didn´t tip the canoe over into the Nanay, I really went for a swim!