Christmas fun and back to reality

It been ages...sorry about that.

Candice and I headed six hours up the coast of Peru to a little surfer town called Mancora. We'd been there before on our first trip through Peru so we knew what to expect. The beach there is lovely and we stayed in a really nice hostel called Loki which had a swimming pool. However, because the hostel had a swimming pool and a bar, we ended up only going to the beach twice which was a bit lazy of us. But, after all the stress of moving countries we just wanted to sunbathe, chill out and drink cocktails. We also met some really cool people people which made the evenings fun.

On Christmas Day we treated ourselves to a speacial seafood lunch and an ice cold beer in a restaurant overlooking the beach. Afterwards, we thought we'd walk back along the beach to our hostel. When we were almost there we tohught we'd take a little nap on the sand before heading to the party at the hostel. Unfortunatly for us, just as we started to nod off, a huge wave came and soaked us both - and everything in our bags! Candice's phone was the only casualty, but it took me three days to get the sand out of my hair. It was funny though.

The only bad thing about Loki was that for the first few nights we had to share a room with two dirty Australian boys who stank, stole Candice's water and half a pineapple and seemed to feel the need to have very loud conversations when they came in at 6am. God, that makes me seem really old...but it was very annoying. Luckily they left before New Year.

On New Years Eve Candice came down with a terrible bout of food poisoning and spent most of the day throwing up and....going to the toilet. But she pulled herself together and still came out to the yelow and gold party at the hostel. Did you know in Peru it's traditional to wear yellow underwear on for New Year!?

We came back to Chiclayo on the bus journey from hell on the 2nd. Not only did it seem like the driver was trying to kill us (as usual) but the people in front of us had their chairs so far back that our knees were bruised for days - idiots!

We've now started teaching at the school and after a few teething problems - which you probably all know about - things seem to be going well. But, if we've learnt one thing from living in South America, it's that nothing is ever straight forward. So, we'll have our guard up until we have the money in our pockets.

I'll put some pictures up on Facebook soon. xxx