Sunday, June 1, 2008
Update - Nothing to get excited about
I realized I didn't follow up on our flight to La Paz. On our way to catch the but to Iguazu, we stopped into a travel agency to see about buying a ticket. If you recall, our ticket buying experiences haven't exactly been peachy. We sat down with 1 hour and 25 minutes before our bus departure and the people seemed very nice and helpful. After about 15 minutes of them poking around the computer, and after already saying they found a flight for us, we couldn't really figure out why the process wasn't moving forward. We had our credit cards out. Everyone wants to take your money, not these people. She had us fill out some paperwork and wanted the address and phone number to the place we stayed in BsAs. We told her Republica San Telmo but we didn't have a phone number. She spent way longer than she should have looking for the phone number online. Who cares! Lynne explained en espanol that we had a bus to catch at 6 but wanted to get there by 530. It was now after 5, they had swiped our cards but hadn't given us anything to sign. The guy was on the phone, off the phone, back on, saying nothing to us. The woman is still looking for the phone number. Lynne asks how much longer. She says, ooh cinco minutos. Ok well we really need to go catch our bus. No reaction. We asked if we could just sign our credit cards, that was fine, but we still couldn't leave. Going on 530 now. Lynne says you have my email can you just email me the confirmation, he says that's fine so we stand up to leave/run to the bus but the lady follows us. She has to walk down the street with us to photocopy our passports. So we go into a completely unrelated establishment to wait for these photocopies. First the passports, then she says oh and your credit cards..WHAT! This is ridiculous, she knew we were in a hurry, she couldn't have made the photo copies while we were waiting for the other guy to sit on the phone for 30 minutes. Whatever, we got our tickets to La Paz, we are here and hoping not to get altitude sickness. We landed first in Santa Cruz, Bolivia and had to buy our visas there and then back on the plane to La Paz. More bread was served which was great..And the hostel we found has a free pancake breakfast and free beer once a day. Too bad we are only here one night! It's really cold outside but I think I will sleep a lot warmer here. The place in Iguazu was seriously an ice box. Sorry no pictures this time, I told you this was going to be unexciting since we were on either a bus or plane all day. But check back for our exciting days to come!
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