Dinner at "Passion Fruit" with Gladys and Wilfredo

Gladys, my colleague and Fulbright contact at UTA, and her husband Wilfredo have been so kind to me since my arrival. Mom and Gordon took us all to dinner at the restuarant Maracuya, which sits right on the ocean in Arica. Maracuya means "passion fruit," and the dessert I ordered allowed me to experience for the first time what a cut-open passion fruit actually looks like (see photo on left). It's very unusual! It almost looks like a kind of fruit salad inside, but that's the way the fruit comes in nature. It's really tart, but I've come to like it a lot.