Francine and Sébastien

This past weekend was Veronica’s cousin Francine’s wedding to Sebastian. The ceremony was at a church in the main square and started at 10:30am. Here they have 2 ceremonies, the religious and the civil, it seems the government doesn’t recognise the ceremony at the church. So after the church ceremony we went to Club Cusco where the civil ceremony was held. Then we went to the reception at Hacienda Gloria (Gloria Estate) up near Sacsayhuamán. It was really nice, every table had a bottle of Black Label Johnnie Walker woohoo haha. The food was over and done with pretty quickly as it’s all about la música y el bailar. So the music and dancing went on for hours finishing around 9:30 10pm. I had never danced so much in my life and it wasn’t just the young people dancing, EVERYONE was. So I danced with the Aunties, uncles etc and Verónica’s dad hahaha it was awesome. Oh and Verónica’s aunty Norka said I danced really well, yeah that’s right the gringo can dance hahaha.

Jesse was having a party at his hostel that night and I really wanted to go but we were just too tired so we went home.

The next day the family had lunch together at a huge restaurant in San Jerome, about 15mins taxi from Cusco city. There were few tired looking faces heh.

Just a quick one cos it’s funny….kinda.

The other night Verónica and I went to a pizzeria for dinner. While we were waiting for the bill I noticed a guy moved and sat behind Verónica and he keep looking down at her butt, I thought well fair enough hahaha I don’t blame him. But the more I looked at him the dodgier he seemed so I thought I better keep an eye on him. Then he takes his jacket off and lays it over his shoulder, and his head keeps looking down, up, down, up really nervously. Verónica’s handbag was beside her on the seat but i thought there’s no way he’d try and take it but yep the next thing I see is his hand come from under his jacket about to grab her bag. Well lets just say I pretty much lost it then, yelling at him (surprisingly no cursing heh not that he would understand) “What do you think you’re doing!!!”, he said some excuse in spanish so I jumped up and was going to lay into him but thought better of it as there were kids right beside us. Hahaha he was crapping himself, so I pointed to the door and told him “Get out!!!”, which he did thank goodness. This whole time Verónica was frozen wide-eyed and didn’t even turn around hahaha, when she finally spoke she said something like “Jamie! I’ve never seen you like that” hahaha it was quite funny although I was shaking quite a bit afterwards.

I couldn’t believe anyone could be so cheeky so I think that’s why I was so angry. It definitely got the adrenaline pumping though.