Day 19

02-11-09

I was sooo looking forward to last Saturday as we´d all planned to go out in Lima for Halloweén but the night before I had a rather sleepless night as I was up spewing my guts out for a lot of it. I woke up in the morning feeling like death and was very close to just staying home and giving Lima a miss. However I knew that I´d be missing out big time so I decided to suck it up like a sweetheart and just go! Millie was an absolute dream that morning; she went out really early to get me oranges and bread, she made me a hot drink with rehydration salts, and even offered to stay in with me that night if I still felt rubbish, but of course that was not going to happen!

We all set off early in the morning so that we had the whole day to spend in Lima. Firstly we visited the museum where we learnt a bit about history and seen lots of pots. I usually find it hard to concentrate at things like that so I didn´t take much in which, yes I know, is awful! We then followed the uneventful museum tour with luncheon and cocktails in the park which was just lovely! Millie started ballroom dancing with a random 90 year old Peruvian man who of course was swooned! Millie´s a top dollar belter KEN!?

After lunch we all went shopping as a lot of us hadn´t even got our costumes for that night yet! Sadiq was buying a pink t-shirt for himself and I begged him to go as a pink carebear which of course he dismissed. But following mine and Sara´s constant pleas, he said that if we managed to find him pink trousers and pink bear ears in the space of 10 minutes he would. To Sadiq´s severe horror we actually managed to find him a pink hair band and two scrunchies we could make into bear ears, and pink trackies! Me and Sara were just about wetting ourselves with utter glee and excitement! Sadiq´s the type of guy who has very strong principles and never goes back on his word so he was devasted and moreover the guy is Muslim so couldn´t eve drink away the humiliation!

Getting ready was the best part of that night! Bless Sadiq! He was so nervous when I was painting him pink and covering him with love hearts! We were standing in the toilets-shower room doing his facepaints and everytime he´d dear somebody on the otherside of the door he quickly hide behind the shower curtain. When he was finally ready Sadiq received the most amazing response - it was like he´d been crowned an ultimate legend! I love Sadiq. So anyway, after a few wines in the hostel we all headed out to a rather expensive bar where we played a couple of drinking games and got told off for being too rowdy so then proceeded onwards on a very long and oblivious trek trying to find some jumping reggae club which Richard had somehow heard about. We finally found the place and were completely disappointed! It was completely empty and was more like somebody´s big house rather than a club, was quite bizarre. Nontheless, we decided to stay for at least one drink, which led to many more and a craching time of merry ridiculous dancing! I think the owner of the club-house-thing was absolutely astounded that there were actually people in his club-house-thing so much so trhat he was taking pictures of us all night. Bit creepy but we were too merry to care!

Following that hefty dosage of horrendous dancing, we all decided to move onto another club. I don´t even know how long we were walking about for trying to all decide on a place to go, and I´m not quite sure how it started but people started arguing about what they wanted to do and it just escalated and escalated until a couple of us did a double take to see a werewolf, sweeney todd, a carebear, a dead barbie, a witch, a badger, and a pirate amongst some other weird characters arguing in the middle of a crowded area all about nothing! Quite amusing really! So we returned to the hostel a bit earlier than expected. When we returned, there was a cleaner in our hostel and the random time of half one in the morning cleaning up our toilets, which Millie refused to accept and kept screaming at him "NO MAS TRABACHAAAA!!! COME DOWNSTAIRS TO THE PUB AND HAVE A DRINK" so a few of us sat downstairs eating cake and chatting to some guy we could not understand, and he kept checking out poor petrified Sadiq.

In the morning, thankfully everyone seen the funny side of the argument the night before, so it was all dandy! We pretty much all spent most of the day lazing down at the beach. Was just stunning, and it was great to be able to breath in clean fresh air and relax instead of constantly working!

Getting home back to Pachacutec was a tricky adventure as we had to get three buses, which we somehow managed if not the long way round. The buses used to amuse me here, but after a night out, they are far from pleasant! They squish people into buses even tighter than families squish more family members into tiny shacks here! And the buses home wasn´t a short one! We left between 4 and 4.30pm and arrived home at about 8.30pm. it should have only taken about 2 and a half hours. Newbies! By the time I´d gotten home I felt sooo awful! My whole body was aching, and was shivery and shakey, had a banging head, felt like a was going to spew.

Mama Juli could see that me and Millie didn´t look to great when we finally got in so just offered us soup which I loved the sound of! Always the ticket when you´re feeling like death warmed up! So I thankfully sat down at the table infront of my hot steamy plate of soup, dipped my spoon in, and lifted out a whole chicken leg! I actually heaved but managed to contain myself! It still had the claws and everything! At that point, I knew I´d be taking a day off work the next day!