Our Wedding

Wow I can not believe our wedding has come and gone. It was a very special day for us and we were so happy to share it with so many wonderful people. Johanne was her beautiful self and looked absolutely fantastic. Besides me screwing up my vows by refering to Johanne as my husband.... everything was great.... but that mistake is me to a tea.... I'm surprised I didn't refer to her as Troy, or Clarence or something hehehehehehe. Thanks again to everyone who sent us wishes and love.

Wedding Times

Because Johanne is still weak we decided to get married at the Hall at 7:00 instead of getting married at 5:00 at my parents place... it will be less stress for my mom and Johanne and less moving around for Johanne.

Happy Wedding Day

Today is our wedding day. Finally here. I sure hope everyone has a great time that's coming. I will be posting more about the trip and Johanne's ordeal in Peru next week.

Oh ya.... got our luggage yesterday.

Luggage

Oh ya... still no sign of our luggage!

Big Altitude

Johanne is doing well, just not as well as I would like but I guess it will take time. I think she is enjoying the fact she is not allowed to lift anything heavy and that the wedding is suddenly my burden. Maybe she planned this odeal after all.

If Johanne doesn't have more improvement tomorrow, she'll head to the doctor. I have to call the QEII tomorrow to see what the specuialists thought of the CT Scans.

I did so much bitching about the altitude that I thought I would post this shot taken at "Albra La Raya" our highest point 4338 meters or 14,332 feet above sea level. Seeing I live at 5 feet 10inches above sea level it was quite an affect on my body. These lovely ladies were here to sell some of their crafts and check out the shallow breathers from from the land down low.

At this height your skin sunburns in minutes. Johanne and I were using SPF50 and it still felt like we were burning.

Peruvian Ambulance

What do you do when you are at an altitude of over 2 miles high, deep in the Andean Mountains and become so extremely sick each step is excruciatingly painful? Call for an ambulance.

Here Johanne gets a piggy back ride from a porter half her weight (sorry Joey-Lynn) who basically ran her to base camp only switching once with the guy in red. Our group was a half hour a head of us and these two guys arrived at camp an hour before anyone else passing everyone on the trail. Unbelievable really.

I knew she was incredibly sick at this point when she agreed to do this as one slip could have been disastrous for both. But these guys are tough and rugged and more sure footed than an Alpaca.

Oh ya our luggage

When we arrived home we did so with no luggage... Clarence and Susan lost theirs too. Hopefully they will turn up as we had some video in the bags plus all our gear.... but concidering what we went through that's only minor in the big scheme of things.

Frank