watch out I've got a bad altitude..... he he hee

Hey there peeps! Well it is absolutely pouring down here in Cusco, and the hotel we stay in is leaking....awesome! lucky Jodes and I are on the 2nd floor and there is 3 floors!!

Cant remember where I was at with last post, but know that we have all been suffering altitude sickness. NO that does not mean we have been spewing up!!!! Its more like waking up after a massive night on the piss.... and then you go "Hang on I only had 3 beers.... Surely I cant feel this bad... Oh yes I can..."
So given that feeling, I have just been loving it up on the alt sick and continuing to drink. Well i figure if if im gunna wake up with a hangover there may as well be a reason.

Its like old times.... hehehee... may as well enjoy it... the brain swells or someting like that.... unsure that it makes me smarter.....

P.S. Dad and all relatives Don't read that last bit...... you may get dissillusioned... maybe thats happened already... OK .... grumpy... or disappointed, uuuummmmmm, just be happy for me.??? I am having fun YES!



So today I'm gonna go backwards.... maybe... depends on how much i can remember! Well we-our group- has left the breakfast room looking like a Chinese laundry, because of the rain, we all got soaked coming back to hotel this afternoon. Raul did tell us to get a taxi, but we didn't....... We figured it wasn't that far to walk, we didn't consider how hard it was raining... OR THE FACT I ONLY BROUGHT ONE PAIR OF JEANS AND SHOES WITH ME!!!! So much for being ruthless in my packing!!!!
Hence Margaret and I got the dude- waiter- to light the fire.... we figured he was going to use paper... huh aha no.... a polystyrene cup filled with kero!!!! Nice SOOOOOO environmentally friendly yes sarcasm is a friend of mine!!..... But it got it going I suppose, no different to back home! So we sat around said fire and drank wine, ate pizza, hung our clothes and shoes out to dry and the toasted marshmallows, how Aussie of us! and its not even Australia day yet!

Previously to arriving in Cusco we had a 6 hr bus trip which took us to 4335m above sea level! Some privileged few may have received a photo or 2 although I think only one got more than one photo...

I wouldn't say that it was hard to breath, but I noticed I was doing a bit of sucking in as much air as I could every hour or so.

Before that we were in Puno. Ummm what did we do there??? Yeah the brain has not been working properly with Altitude. Previously to altitude, I was learning a new Spanish sentence per day... now nothing.... hoping it comes back soon.
Oh yeah that's right- LAKE TITICACA, wow this is amazing how vast is this lake??? .... nothing I've ever seen before or maybe will again! we only saw part of it and it was HUGE!!!!!
walked 500 steps on Taquille Island and had lunch there. Bizarre there were loads of gum trees!!! Introduced at some stage but it made Jodes and I miss home...

ugg warm beer, not conducive to Acey writing a decent blog.
ug ugg.....

Then we went to the floating Islands of Eros, I realize this is a complete scam, but hey they gotta make money somehow huh!? Basically, Its reeds joined together then anchored down for people to live on with huts made out of reeds. Its all very well played out and they get us suckas to buy stuff that ultimately we don't want. Personally, I reckon they all get on a boat at 5 pm and go back to the mainland to the pub and their houses, then get back on another one at 6 am, but hey live the dream.... its a "cultural experience" ......eyes rolling in back of head.......

Then we had boat trip back to mainland where we managed to drink 2 bottles of red wine in a very short amount of time..... Gheezus this altitude stuff you can blame for heaps hey! its great!

A meal out with the crew and to some sort of sleep after this... I'm finding I'm not sleeping the night through, but then again I didn't really do this in OZ either...
Till then my lovelies, we are off to Macchu Picchu in a day and will so be contacto con - non contactable....
Te Amo amigos, amigas
Acey and the Jodes
Oh and trust me Video and photos coming soon, very funny...... xoxoxoxoxo