Bye Bye Bolivia we will miss you... Hello Peru!

Okay so where we last left off we were going back back to Cocha Cocha Bamba... and we did :) It was really fun to see our Cochabamba friends and enjoy being in a city that we feel like we have already mastered... How many times to you go to Bolivia with a list of restaurants you want to hit up? Surprise we did! Needless to say we had so much fun in Cochabamba. We even visited thanks to Gama this street food Mecca called "La Isla" had more Choripans than one should ever have in a lifetime... okay we don´t actually believe that because they are delicious! Seriously thank you Gama for bringing us to food Heaven! In Cocha we also were lucky enough to see a traveling circus with a tree gymnast dressed in a spandex Zebra full body suit. It was simply amazing!

After a few days of fun we set off for Copacabana and then to the Peruvian border. now we like to think all of our bus rides have been fun and filled with charm and delicious stories to tell later but this one was more of a horror ride to begin with. It was a late night in Cochabamba Bolivia. Two young girls set off on a mission to make it to Peru. As they boarded their bus with sadness in their hearts from leaving their friends but a glimmer of hope for new adventure in their eyes they realized the bus was fisrt class and a new journey was in their midst. They also got to sit next to the Bolivian Elvis which was enough to get them through the night! Shortly after the bus started on their journey it stopped... for food. The two girls where completely parched and agua was their innermost desire. Aly decided that getting off the bus to retrieve some of this sweet thirst quencher was a good idea, especially after seeing the street smart Elvis get off... Little did she know this stop may be her last. As she searched far and wide for cheap water and a little lady to sell it to her. Just as she had found a good deal she heard a bus engine start to rumble and saw from the corner of her eye her bus begin to take off. Meanwhile Jo and Elvis´wife were calling for Aly and Elvis to get back on the bus and asking the bus driver to stop. The bus driver didn´t! Luckily Aly abandoned hopes for water and started sprinting for the bus. The next thing Jo can remember is Aly in the bus headlñights and then a horrid scream of "Wait I´m on this Bus!!!" Luckily Jo didn´t die of heart attack from screaming at the bus driver and Aly just barely made it on by jumping into the bus. Once everyone was happy, safe and securely on the bus the two bus soldiers (that´s us) looked out the window to see Elvis still in line for his coveted pollo broaster. The bus driver stopped the bus and waited for Elvis to load. Obviously he has more street cred than us! Lesson learned never get off the bus!

We are now in Puno at a great hostel called Bothy. On the way to our hostel we had the greatest, taxi/ motorcycle with an attached carriage to it, ride ever! The mortorcycle converted into little carriage was very slow and about half way through ran out of gas. However the driver, clearly a motorcycle baller, managed to get it started by turning over the engine for five minutes. We could not help but crack up in the back seat because we kid you not it was the longest we have ever heard anyone turn an engine for... we thought there was no hope of getting it restarted. However he did and we made it safely to Bothy. After getting out of the motorcar we said goodbye to our new hero and he put the bad boy in neutral and let it roll down the hill, taxis honking all the while!

So we are now at Bothy, unfortunately every other traveller is trekking to Cuzco so we are stuck with the two male workers of our hostel constantly flirting with us. We also some how got roped into buying trout for a little fiesta we had today with a family and the boys. Which was actually really fun because we got to go shopping in the market and see women pull fish eggs right out of the fishes baby maker! Oh yeah go Puno Ladies you truely are the women!

So now we are just chilling in our hostel catching up on life and getting ready to head for Cuzco, where we will be teaching children english. We are really excited and know we will have great stories to tell! Until Next Time Adventure is out There!