Woke up in our beautiful Hostel Sucre (pictured) and drove out with our guide to Tarabuco where we shopped and learned some more about the town and the culture there. Our guide was concerned because of the rain that our flight might be canceled. Mike and I did not understand until we were headed home and she explained that the airport was closed because it was cloudy. They do not fly if there are clouds...evidently this is a recurring problem. We discussed it with our travel agent in Santa Cruz and decided to get a bus to Santa Cruz and she would try to get a partial refund on our ticket. We went to the bus station to discover that there were no seats to Santa Cruz left. After throughly discussing the posibility of taking a bus to other places which were ultimately also sold out we decided to stay in Sucre another night (ok, we had no other options, we even tried to find a taxi to take us which would have cost a fortune, but would have been worth it). We found a travel agency who could buy bus tickets for us a day in advance (at the bus station they only sell tickets day of which would have meant us getting up and rushing to the bus station early tomorrow morning) so we now have bus tickets to go to Santa Cruz tomorrow and are on the waiting list for a plane to Santa Cruz tomorrow if it isn't cloudy and the airport opens. I wouldn't be worried except that our bus (if all goes well) gets us in to Santa Cruz at 0800 Tuesday morning and our plane to the US leaves at 1045. With any luck we will get a plane to Santa Cruz and there won't be a problem.
We had a lovely dinner at a place that brews their own beer and has free wireless and rinses their veggies in bottled water so I was able to eat my first salad in 6 weeks. Now we are headed to bed hopeful that the sun will be out tomorrow.
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