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Published: July 23rd 2010
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Sunday
We got there Sunday settled in, shared stories with the dorm both ways
and decided to go to the bar.
At Loki you don't buy anything with cash, you put it under your name
and dorm number and pay everything at the end which is a dangerous
power to give me!
We sat at the bar I got a toastie and Hollie got tomato pasta, it was
nice to have something simple instead of avocado or plantane on your
plate like the last 3 weeks. We jut had a quiet 1 having 6-7 beers
whilst chatting to a lovely bird named Jenny.
Monday
Woke up and sampled the free breakfast of flat breadbuns (not cakes)
with butter and marmalade, plus free tea and coffee. Not great only
did that once. Looked at the board and we had 4 a side football with
the pub quiz, nice! Sunbathed most of the morning in between the world
cup obviously, then went for a walk to the end of the beach with Hol
which was relaxing and the sea was warm. Lost track of time so missed
4 a side but heard it wasn't great and got to sample the
massive waves
instead, which is when we needed to do surfing lessons while we were
here (get abit of practice before Bondi Beach).
Got back to the dorm and met everyone properly we had Chris and
Martine. (met whilst away, chris English, martine Irish, nice couple)
Emma, (Martines best friend since boarding school) Pascal, (Swisse guy
travelling alone spoke better English than some Geordies I know) and
Chris 2 (didn't really speak to him, not very sociable).
We decided to make 2 teams with 2 Irish friends of Martine and Emma.
Got down to the quiz and Pascal had betrayed us for some other team
and Chris 2 was missing so ended up me and Hollie on 1 team and them 5
on another (only 5 allowed in 1 team). There were prizes for best team
name and the same for who wins, so me and Hollie decided with our
interlect we wouldn't win the quiz so we would go for best team name.
Our team name was Sun, Sex and Sandy knickers, we answered 17 out of
40 (not coming last) and won the best team name so we adopted Caroline
(an Irish girl that had run too
late for the quiz) as she mayswell get
amongst and we got 3 free t-shirts and 6 free drinks as it was happy
hour. Not bad if I must say so myself (I came up with team name)
Tuesday
Decided to start today with an omelette after smelling an Ozzie
couples whilst watching the Japan game, shame the second team went out
especially on penalties but still give it more of a go than England!
The board today read Ping Pong tournament during the day and Beer Pong
on the night which I had never heard of. Just dossed about today
sunbathing, playing pool, ping pong (got beat in first round of
tournament) and browsing the net. People were mostly hungover today so
didn't see anyone from the dorm. Me and Hollie played Beer Pong later
on which is basically a game of tiddlywinks but with a ping pong ball,
the aim is to get the othe team as drunk as possible, by getting the
ball in their drink. We got to the semi's but got beat by the Israeli
version of Michael Jordan.
Wednesday
Bacon and scrambled eggs today, it was nice to have a
menu you fully
understood although Hollie was becoming addicted to the seafood
Paella. Today the board read pool vollyball but with that being my
expertise I thought I would try surfing lessons instead, give someone
else a chance.
We got a cracking deal of 40 soles (£10) for an hours lesson and the
board for the rest of the day. My instructor didn't speak a word of
queens but managed to pick up the basics and was standing on the board
surfing the waves before I knew it. After the hour lesson me and
Hollie were too tired to carry on so headed back to Loki.
The actiity for the night was called your the DJ where 6 people pick a
playlist of 3 songs and whoever the barstaff rate the best wins a t-
shirt and 2 drinks.
I was sure I couldn't lose after everybody at the bar clapped away to
my first choice Yellow Submarine, then I continued with Curtis
Mayfield - Move on up and finished with Stevie Wonder - Superstition.
The guy that won had a Cure song and 2 others of the same genre I
reckon it was a fix although he was sound
as a pound. After your the
dj came alot of vodka, rum, beer and a blood bomb (red bull with a
dropped shot of vodka and grenadine) well 2 because I finished off
Hollies for her too. I remember it being a cracking night although I
did lose my t-shirt at the second bar. From the storied in the morning
sounds like we all had a blast.
Thursday
HUNGOVER, omelette with a side of bacon and OJ was nowhere near
sorting my hangover out! So we went for a walk into Mancora where I
slowly sobered up and booked our first night bus to Trujillo leaving
at 10pm arriving at 7am.
After kind of sobering up me and Hollie got back to the hostel to find
we had been entered in a team of 5 for Loki Olympics. It was tug of
war, pool volleyball, rum and coke musical chairs and a big bomb
contest.
We did awful at tug of war but with 3 girls I didn't expect anything
else. Got to the quarters of pool volleyball but referee was bent as
opposing team was Loki staff. Safe to say I stayed away from the rum
and coke musical chairs. The big bomb I was sure our team won but you
can't really tell from underwater if you made a big splash or not and
we didn't win that either. So all in all did pretty crap at Loki
Olympics.
After Loki olympics I tried to continue my winning streak at poker
after winning s/.90 (£22.50) 2 nights previously againasy 2 Americans
and 3 israelis. I was doing well and doubled up pretty much straight
away with a straight, but then I went all in on a flop of A, 7, 2 with
A,J and got called with 5's only for the other guy to hit runner,
runner and knock me out with the straight. As bad beats go I thought
that was pretty bad and would have been gutted if I hadn't won 2 days
before.
Anyway after poker I went back to the dorm had a shower (tepid) and
headed out with Hollie for something to eat, I really fancied Mexican
but it was really expensive and with me drinking half my budget the
night before it was a no go. We found a place near the beach and I got
Lomo Saltado
(very alike beef and blackbean made with chips in it and
served with rice) a Peruvian dish I had discovered a couple of nights
before, Hollie got Ceviche (cold fish with alot of lime juice and
onions) which was disgusting and Cantonese prawns which were really
nice.
We finished there headed back to Loki to say bye to everyone and swap
names (facebook) and then headed to our night bus.
I wasn't looking forward to a night bus with a hangover but was hoping
I would sleep.
Muchos love
Brown
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