half way through week 2..

sorry for the long delay in updates..its been a crazy few days. We ended up missing the 9th of july party in san ignacio because our bus left too soon. We actually had to go to Tucuman which was about a 20 hour drive and then hopped on a bus to Salta 10 mins later making for a full 24 hour trip. We met some cool kids on the bus and we talked about donald miller books. I had just finished "through painted deserts" and it was AWESOME. I was one, proud i finished it, and two, happy i liked it. We enjoyed talking with those kids from NC about their volunteer activities in Peru and what God's been showing them. When we got to salta, our real adventure started. We couldn't find the address for the hostel we were planning on staying at so we found the tourist representative and asked him. He said he knew it and took us out to the taxi. Mistake one: he told the taxi driver the address and not us. The taxi took us to a ridiculous hotel and tried to drop us off there. I got frustrated with him and told him he needed to take us where the other man told him. I finally found the address that wasnt supposed to be in my purse and read it to him. He FINALLY understood me.. "backpackers hostel" no wonder he didnt recognize that word...its always a bad idea to name a spanish place an english name. So we got to one of the 3 backpackers hostels and got out all our junk..leaving him with a pretty nice tip...only seconds later to find out that it was the wrong backpackers and we needed to walk 7 blocks with ALLLLL of our stuff..can you say prime target? It was super hot at this point and in addition to our packs, i had on pants, boots, a long sleeve and a feather vest. I was fully sweating when we finally got to the right hostel. A hot shower is always the first thing on the list after a long bus ride.