9-28 (Sunday)

Finally, a computer that has the same keys as the one at home!

The electric went off this morning while Barbara was in the bathroom. It got cold in the room but didn't last too long.

We had breakfast, checked out ($90) and then took a cab to the bus station. We're on our way back to Cuzco.

They put the wand over us again before we got on the bus. When it buzzed they didn't pay any attention to it. They just told us to go on. They videoed our faces again.

We stopped twice. At the first stop some guy had an assigned seat next to me so I got up and moved so I'd have two seats. At the second stop someone tried to sit next to Barbara, she told him to get lost.

We stopped at some unauthorized places and they let people ride underneath the bus. It also appeared that we were carrying counterban of cigarettes because right before we arrived in Cuzco the bus stopped and they quickly pulled at least 10 large packages out from the belly of the bus and hurriedly loaded them into a car. We could see through the plastic and could see they were cigarettes. We thought there were at least 20 cartons in each package.
It took six hours to get from Puno to Cuzco. That's longer than it takes to get from Lima to Miami. Manuel was at the station to pick us up.

We checked into our new hotel. We felt like we had died and gone to heaven. The room was beautiful. Not only did it have a key card entry BUT we had TWO rolls of toilet paper and a bath mat!!! We're paying more than usual but we deserve it. We repacked and then went out to dinner. It began raining. We're hoping for good weather in the morning when we fly to Lima.