Apr 2007

I don´t even know where to start..
Jesus came and picked me up from the airport and took me home to meet his brother and cousin, then we all went to eat tacos! Real Mexican tacos are the best!!!
I don´t know how I´ll survive without Mexican food when I get home..

He´s taken me to meet his family, see some of the Mexican "countryside", we´ve partyed with his friends and gone to a soccergame. This week he´s been working a lot, so he sent me out with his brother one day and his mum the other day. We´ve been to museums, cathedrals and basilikas. I´ve seen the virgin of Guadalupe and the biggest flag ever!
Monday I went to Taxco, which is a silver mining city build in the mountains. Very, very beautiful. And on that tour i didn´t meet another Aussie like I usually do, but a Norwegian girl! And her dad is from the same country the dad of the English guy I went to Samoa with is from, Guyana! How many funny coincidents... Well, funny for me anyway.

And yesterday I went to the hairdresser to give my poor hair some treatment that it desperately needed. I haven´t cut it since Rod cut it in September.. So, as usual, the girl cut waaaay too much, and I now have a Mexican hair style... It´s not too bad, but it´s very depressing to have "short" hair again.. I hate hairdressers..

Tomorrow I´m going to the pyramids with one of Jusus´ friends and then it´s partytime!
Right now the family dog, Jeffery, is scuirming on the floor trying to get some attention so I´ll pet her. Yes, it´s a girl. And her nickname is Cachu, which is the noise she makes when she sneezes, haha.
And their Cuban grandfather is sleeping behind me pretending to watch tv. I tell ya, if I can´t be with my family at the moment, this is the second best option! They are so friendly.
And they have a housekeeper that cleans and cooks, I don´t even get to put away my plates, she gets all upset and says "no, no" waving her hands. I could get used to that..

It´s been so good to stay with a family here, they tell me where I can go, what is safe and where the best places to buy souvenirs etc are.
The streets are crampacked with Mexicans trying to sell all sorts of stuff to make a living. It´s almost impossible to drive a car through the city center. And take my word for it, the traffic is crazy in this city as it is! Jesus claims that if you can drive in Mexico city, you can drive anywhere in the world, very true. It´s absolut madness!

It´s not exactly a safe city, but we live in a neighbourhood that is protected by fences, gates, security personnel and cameras. It´s a shame that it has to be like this, but believe me it´s necessary. So many people are kidnapped every year for ransom, it´s scary. And a lot of them don´t survive because they might recognise them..

I´m really glad I have Jesus!
Next stop is L.A. (again), my relative wants me to meet her son... And then I fly to London to get rid of any jetlag so I´ll be fit for fight when I get home, hehe!

But now I have to go, ´cause Jesus is finally home!!!

At the airport in L.A. I said goodbye to Shaun, he'd gotten himself a new girl to tag along with him, hehe. And I was picked up by my relative, Ann.
She and her husband have let me stay in their home, they've taken me out for dinner and shown me Hollywood, Bevery Hills, Rodeo drive and much more. Tehy've been so nice to me. One morning Ann and I went to her tennis club up in the hills where I got to work out a bit, swim in the pool, sit in the spa and relax in the sauna while she played tennis! Good deal for me, hey.

Today I've been to Disneyland! It was so different to what I'd expected, much smaller and lots less funrides. But I had a great time, wouldn't mind taking the Indiana Jones ride again! Hadn't nearly enough time to do all the things I wanted to, it's a really great place for kids. Especially the small ones...

When I got back Ann and David took me out for dinner so I could meet their daughter and son-in-law. That was lovely. We took some photos so I can show my grandparents whom they stayed with when they visited Norway.
Ann wanted me to meet her son as well, but he's busy trying to become a fireman. (Another fireman, how funny!) She thought it would be fun for me 'cause he lives with four other single guys or something.. Wow, hey? Maybe not, it sounds a bit like trouble if I think about it..

Well, I'm off to Mexico City tomorrow which I'm really looking forward to. And if I'm lucky, Jesus will come and pick me up from the airport. He told me to be prepared to party... Hope he's not taking me straight from the airport to a Mexican party!! The girls there really know how to look stunning..

I've been on this computer way too long, so I'm gonna crawl into bed.
Have a magical night everyone!

It's funny how I always seems to write when I'm about to travel to my next destination. Tomorrow I'm going to Mexico!

But here's an update from last time..
My English travelmate, Shaun (who is a firefighter(how cool is that??)), left Tonga and went to Samoa. We crossed the dateline and magically got Tuesday all over again! Fun!

Samoa was as we were told, possibly better than Tonga. We stayed in Apia (the caitol) on Upolo for a couple of days before we took the ferry to the other island, Savaii. There we stayed at a place called Jane's Beach Fale. Fales are really cool beach houses that are made out of wood, bamboo or something and straw.. Quite hard to explain, but photos will come later. I had my own fale about three metres from the beach. It was colder taking a shower than swimming in the ocean..

One day we went for a very strenious walk to see the craterman. We've been told to visit this person by a facinating woman that lives in Tahiti where she tries to save white faced monkeys..
It was hard and hot, but Shaun and Kyle (a Canadian we met at Jane's) were good company. At the top we met craterman who walked us the final bit up to the crater. He put a flower behind my ear and made me a glorie out of some kind of bush, I looked a bit like Jesus.. He called me the craterprincess... I was warned before I got there that he is looking for a craterwoman, so I did not get too flattered by these gestures. The boys found it hilarious though, as they would.

I swore after the Tongariro crossing that I would do no more hiking, but after the craterwalk I had to swear again, definately no more walking!!
The next day we decided to go to some waterfalls called Afu Aau. We got a lift real close by a German guy. But don't you know it! We had to WALK to the waterfall through privat land in cowcrap and wet grass. We ended up taking our thongs off cause otherwise it was too slippery.
It was worth it though, the waterfall was magnificant! And it had a natural pool that we swam in and jumped off cliffs.. It was pooring down, so we were the only ones there which was quite a blessing.
We got wet to the bone trying to get back, I've never seen such rain!

We had brilliant weather one day, the day we left.. Still had a really great time.
One evening we went next door to see a fiafia-show. Girls dancing tradtional Samoan dances and boys doing a firedance. Truly amazing! I have to back and see some more firedance-shows!!!! In fact, it should be a weekly broadcast from a Samoan show on NrK every Saturday!! I might have to write them a letter..

So I was really sad leaving Samoa. (Deja-vu... I feel like I've written something similar a couple of times before..)