Saturday, February 27, 2010

Day 30

 
 
 

A full day of traveling. First a bus, then a train – Mikes first train. It is kind of funny to have a planned trip so that even just transferring from the bus to the train a person shows up to make sure things go smoothly. Our transfer person from the bus to the train took us first to the train station where the place to check your bag wasn’t open yet so we said that we could just take our luggage with us to get lunch. We had lunch and then walked back to the train station…when we arrived at the restaurant I told her she didn’t have to stay with us, we could get back to the train ourselves and she said she was instructed to stay with us so we bought her lunch. When we got back to the train station the door she said we were supposed to check our luggage at wasn’t open so she asked about it and then walked us down to the part of the train where they were taking the luggage. She says to me, if I hadn’t stayed with you, you would be still waiting outside the door where she thought the luggage went, I smiled and nodded, but in actuality she is giving me way too much or too little credit. I would have either just followed everyone else to where they were bringing their luggage or I would have never realized that there was a part of the train to check your luggage (and thought that the place she wanted to put our luggage before lunch was just a place to store your luggage while waiting for the train like they have in Italy) and we would have just put our suitcases above our heads in the train like the people in front of us did (and like you do it in Europe). It is funny when your guide knows how things are supposed to go, but not knowing how they should go and just going with the flow actually makes things easier.
Mike was excited for the first couple hours of his first ever train ride, but then got tired of being on a train. He did enjoy seeing flamingos and lamas outside the window and they played three movies during our six and a half hours on the train.
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