Semana Santa, Day 1

We left school at 3:30pm in Hugo’s taxi. Hugo is the taxi driver we use most when we are taking Henley places or for longer planned trips. He is kind enough not to charge extra for the dog and seems happy to have him along for the ride. Because of this kindness we use him when we don’t have Henley with us, like today. Unfortunately, for this 20 minute trip he charges 40,000 pesos, the same price as most of our hour long trips up the mountain to visit friends. Sean is shocked, but we pay anyway. Throughout most of the vacation at random times he will stop, shake, his head and say “40,000!”

We hang out in the airport for 2 hours or so waiting for our short flight to Bogotá. Once we get to Bogotá we quickly get lost in one of the most confusing airports ever. We take the bus to the international terminal, so we think. We get out, wander around, realize our mistake and try again. After two hours of inside, outside running around in a down pour we finally find our gate and board our plane to Lima, Peru.

Two and a half hours later we arrive in the Lima airport, very nice, clean, and comfortable. It is 11:00pm. We check the departure board for our 6:00am flight to La Paz, Bolivia. Other flights that leave at 7:00 am are posted. We decide to ask a worker at one of the gates. He assures us that airline doesn’t update their flights until around 4:00am. It is too early yet, so we grab a couple of seats, lay down on surprisingly cozy airport chairs and fall quickly asleep.