Monday, December 7, 2009

WTF?

So.... last night did turn into quite the extravaganzaaaaa..... we went out to this bar on the main strip for Victoria's birthday and I am pretty sure that at least one representative from each of the world's countries was there. I stood in for Thailand. I couldn't really afford to spend 10 reales per drink due to the fact that I am as broke as a joke, so luckily I found one of our new Chilean drum circle amiguinhos and he showed me where the gas station was (take a left at the dark alley and then a right at the kids drinking cachaça on the front porch) so that I could use my mastercard (the supermercado closes at 11pm, and lets face it, it was probably about 3am....) Thank you American credit system for making this possible. Just kidding Dad..... Anyways, Pingo the posauda dog followed us all the way, and I just want to say that he is just about the cutest Brasilian dog I have ever seen. He is always trying to put his paw on you. Kind of like Cath does when we sleep in the same bed. Just likes to know you are there. Definitely cooler than Pinche.... no offense Pinche. Somehow, we ended up going to an after party at the band's house where we played music and this tiny old crazy man kept kissing us on the top of the head and telling us about how he spends 11 hours a day climbing coconut trees. He then proceeded to try to braid my hair.... Next thing we know, it was light outside, so we headed back home. Our new Canadian friend tried to order us some 6am Brahmas, but even we were too tired for this kind of behavior, and so we opted out and went to sleep. About 20 minutes later, we woke up because we had to go to the bus station AGAIN to try to buy tickets to Recife. There are many things wrong with this bus station:
1. The only bus that goes to Recife is Sao Geraldo.
2. The Sao Geraldo office where you buy the tickets is not at the bus station, it is somewhere that is hard to find.
3. The Sao Geraldo office is never open when we get there.
4. The Sao Geraldo website doesn't work.
5. The Sao Geraldo phone number to the Itacare office is pointless because they are never there to answer the phone.
6. Sacanagem.
So, we will try again at 1:30pm, as they posted a sign swearing they would be back at this time..... So, after trying to figure out the bus dilemma, (only to decide that we can't do a damn thing about it until 1:30) I mosied on down to the local supermercado to get something to drink. On my way there, I saw one of our band friends. He was drinking a Skol (10am) and somehow I accidently knocked it on the ground, spilling beer and glass everywhere. They said no problem, and then bought me a beer. That about sums this town up in a nutshell. I went to get Ashley and we then proceeded to hang out with our band friends for a bit as we are just killing time until the bus place opens. Let's just say we opted out of their 11am activity and decided to blog instead. Let's add that bit of information to the nutshell. We don't know what we are doing today because our life decisions are currently dependent on this pinche bus, but hey the world is our oyster and we just a couple of pearls.

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