People Places and Fruit

What a day, Marco Jr., John, Cynthia and myself took a taxi to down town Lima, really down town. We went into a large market, Polvos Azzules, there are thousands of pairs of shoes, luggage of every kind and every thing else you can think of. We didn't stay long as it was like being in an ant nest there were so many people. We took a part back for a computer that John needed to return. There were people all along the sidewalk selling things.
Cynthia bought four tuna fruit, will post a picture so you can see them, tasted really good. The vender just sliced through the skin and nipped off the ends and there it was, one is red and one is light green but they taste the same. We can buy them in Portland and maybe even in Hermiston at the new store. The fruit (Tuna or Prickly Pear) of the Opuntia (a cacti plant), light green and the bright pink almost red. The red tunas get their color from the carmine dyes left behind from the little cochineal (or Cochinilla in Spanish) bug!!! They are very good, not the bug, the fruit! not a strong taste. Now I will know what to buy when I see them at home.