Peru

While wandering the Avenue El Sol in Cuzco, we came across this lovely sight. Unfortunately, this lovely sight cost us 20 Soles (6USD)! After we took the photo, they came over with their hands out. They asked for 10 Soles, but I only had a 20. They said "10 each"! Bah, you live, you learn.

What a nice photo. I can't think of a caption.

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We barely made it to the plane on time thanks to some mis-direction from the hotel receptionist.

We've safely made it to Cuzco, Peru. Luckily the flight was quite short as we weren't able to sit together. Happily enough, I was seated next to a retired Australian couple who were very forthcoming with their life stories and travel plans once they found out I was Australian.

Having arrived, we've both been affected by altitude sickness. Luckily the symptoms have been fairly mild compared to what could have been. Just dizziness and varying amounts of nausea.

Breakfast this morning was tough, dry pieces of toast, some suspicious fruit and some of the local cocoa tea which apparently helps with altitude sickness.

Today we braved the streets of Cuzco as we made our way to the hotel that out tour starts at.
Every taxi that drives past honks in an attempt to get your business and almost every person you pass wants to sell you something.

We leave at stupid o'clock tomorrow morning to catch a train to Machu Picchu. We should have some breath-taking photos for you soon.

Spot Amy in Disneyland

People told us to avoid LA. We should have listened.
On the whole, it was smoggy, ugly and the people were really rude. We did find a few diamonds in the rough though, some people who were quite happy to help.

Simple fact: Disneyland is awesome, everyone should go there.
Disneyland made the whole LA saga worthwhile.
I don't think I'm overstating it, even though we're well past being classed as kids, we had an absolute ball. The rides were great fun (even the Winnie the Pooh one that Amy made me go on...), everything was extremely well finished and the atmosphere was (to borrow a phrase from Walt himself) magical.

We're currently in Lima, Peru awaiting a flight at 4:30am to Cuzco. We've hardly slept in the last 36 hours and Amy's been really sick. Can't wait to move on, Lima is a scary scary place.

We'll report in next time we can get to a computer that actually works!
We're homesick already and miss you all terribly.

--Jason and Amy.


Amy under the Hollywood sign.



Jason in front of Pooh's 'Hunny'.

Sunny Sydney

Here we are enjoying the Cane's hospitality. Noah's getting spruced up before going to meet Eliza Shepherd. Sadly, the shades weren't enough to win her affections.
We've been out enjoying the Sydney sun, consuming numerous Lindt chocolate beverages, kidnapping Noah and drinking our last good coffee for 6 weeks. Thanks Campos!

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Well, here we are.
Actually, no we're not. That's a lie. We've not left yet.
We leave tomorrow for Sydney, and on to the land of the above on the 2nd.
In fact, we leave at 3pm(ish) on on the 2nd and we land in LA at 10am. On the 2nd (I guess that's the 3rd here).
Time zones - brain melting fun for the whole family!