Lunch

Well I managed over a month without getting really sick, so I lasted longer than I expected. Unfortunately last weekend was probably the most sick I’ve ever been, well the most uncomfortable. We went out to a town called Urubamba with Veronica’s family on Saturday afternoon. Veronica’s Dad’s friend has a house out there, it’s an amazing house, pretty huge. Well we had dinner with their family and I started to get pains in my stomach so I ended up going to bed.

Recovering

I never really got to sleep as I keep burbing, it was horrible, reminded me of the fermentation stage of brewing beer ha. So I ended up spending the majority of the night and morning in the bathroom. At 3am I got quite bad and Diego (Veronica’s brother) ended up getting Veronica to come look after me. She spent the next 3 hours trying to comfort me but the pains in my stomach were so bad I couldn’t get comfortable enough to sleep. I think I finally fell asleep just after 6am so it was possibly the worst night I’ve had and I’m glad it’s over.

Well it hasn’t been all bad, the weekend before that was the stag/hens do for Veronica’s cousin and her fiancee. It was pretty much the same as any stag do here except everyone was speaking Spanish and I didn’t know most of them. Their wedding is on 13th September I think, it should be interesting.

Veronica and I have booked Josh, Nadia and our flights to Máncora for October 17th. We’ll spend 5 days there on the beach and then see them off to Mexico from Lima. We’re hoping Jesse’s Loki del Mar resort might be ready by then but if not there’s plenty of accommodation up there. So I’m really looking forward to going to the coast and hopefully getting some surfing done.

My Spanish lessons have been non-existent, I was going to start this week but because I got sick I didn’t. So next week I’m definitely going to start as I need something to do haha.
Oh and Veronica has told her boss that she’s planning on leaving the company and coming to NZ in February for a few months maybe woohoo! So a pretty big move for her as she’s been there for almost 9 years. So we’re deciding whether she should apply for a working or visitors visa. So if anyone has a job offer for a Industrial Designer with management experience that would great haha, well we’ll see what happens.

Tonight we’re probably going to watch Jesse’s band play hahaha should bring back memories.
So that’s it for now, I have some more photos I’ll upload later. Chau.

Well I made it to Cusco early in the morning on Sunday 20th July, Veronica was at the airport to meet me which was great. Since then I haven’t done all that much apart from getting used to the altitude again. Veronica was supposed to have a week off work when I arrived but she got called into work so that was dumb.
We took a quick tour on the bus/tram thing which took us up near Sacsayhuamán where we stopped for 10mins at Christo Blanco which looks over Cusco city.
We’ve also been out a couple of nights for drinks with Veronica’s cousins and friends, see photos…

Unfortunately today I’ve become sick again with an upset stomach and more visits to the bathroom than I’d like. This time I’m prepared with some tablets from NZ but I think I should have bought more than one packet with me since I’ve only been here 13 days.
So far I’ve been staying with Veronica’s family in the spare room but we’ve just organised the same apartment I was staying in last time. I’m quite happy with that even though the price has gone up quite a lot as it’s the high season here. I move in on the 11th Aug.