and the epic journey continues.... whens it gunna end!!!!!!

No really it just keeps happening to us, OMGoddess where do I start!?

Well I guess it really started (again) when we left Steveo and Nat on Playa Blanca. We caught the fast boat, but just getting onto it was fun, it wasn't the jewel sellers that were like vultures it was the tourists!!! So Jodes and I stood back and let them go for it.... Getting on the boat was fun as the swell was right up so basically.... SATURATED!!! then the only seats left were right up the front so constant sea spray! Ha! La vida es buena...... life is great, I dunno if i spelt it correctly Im too tired to care at this point.

We stayed again at the Media Luna and of course as soon as we walk in we bump into Hamie, who we have seen in Cuzco and Lima!! Yay so we got on it, free jello vodka shots and new friends - Fergus, Jasmine, Corey, Joe and several others! who could say NO.... no, not us! The next morning was the first morning we actually woke up with a hangover! NICE!
So we did some Internet, wandered around then decided to go get on the bus! We just made the 3pm bus from Cartegena to Barrenquilla, lucky I'm a little bit pushy when I need to be. But then their was a lady on the bus who decided that her crutch had to have a seat all to its own...... that's where Jodes was supposed to sit..... She was being mean and I wasn't sure what Jodes was about to do but I was was about to throw her crutch into the aisle and sit there, the bus driver was trying to sort it out and eventually they kicked her off the bus!!!! YAY she was a meanie. So off we head on our 2 hr bus ride to Barrenquilla........
Hhhmmmmm we forgot about Colombian time, and the fact that some random little village was having its own carnivalle! so no go through the town for 1.5 hrs.
Ok Before this point I am trying to string together sentences to work out how far away from Barrenquilla we are, are we best to walk and get a taxi?... outcome B is still one hour away, no taxis, ahhh you may miss your plane..... oh dear plane leaves at 7.30... its now 5.45pm......
Jodes finds a random bloke who speaks english (Canadian) and spanish and starts to get him to bargain with a local to take us in his car!!!! Then its VAMOOSE lets go back on the bus we out of here! We are still stressing but are figuring what will be will be..... as the sun sets I know its def after 6pm......
la vida es beuna, let it go, what will be will be,
la vida es beuna, let it go, what will be will be
la vida es beuna, let it go, what will be will be
la vida es beuna, let it go, what will be will be
la vida es beuna, let it go, what will be will be
la vida es beuna, let it go, what will be will be
la vida es beuna, let it go, what will be will be
la vida es beuna, let it go, what will be will be
la vida es beuna, let it go, what will be will be
la vida es beuna, let it go, what will be will be
la vida es beuna, let it go, what will be will be
la vida es beuna, let it go, what will be will be

Outskirts of B and we get out I tell the taxi driver in my broken spanish-
PLEASE HURRY WE ARE REALLY EFFN LATE...
I figure we ain't gonna make but there is a voice there in the back of my head telling me..... by the skin of yer teeth..... la vida es buena
RAN, bolted, into airport, made it by 25 minutes till take off!!! Cant believe they let us on that would never hacve happened in OZ. VIVA COLOMBIA!!!!
YES WE SO ROCK JODES!!!! and the taxi driver did good too.

Oh yeah they fly their planes like they drive their cars.... hard and fast!!!!

Ok so peaking time is over we made it. phew....
Get to Bogata all good crazy cowboy pilots, Jodes and I not seated beside each other on next flight though. I fall asleep on Bogota to Santiago flight, at one point I feel plane banking around... I wonder some... and go back to the land of sweet alpine dreams. The I realize a time later we are landing! I was like that's awesome I slept for ages!!!! Then the chick beside me informs me in her broken english no we are back in Bogota!!! Pilots window broken...... 3.5 hrs in the air for nothing!!!! So they- Avianca Airlines- put us all up in a hotel for 2.5hrs, from 3.30am till 5am. Slept not really, then eventually caught flight at 8 am this morning, with the pilot telling us most likely we go to Iquitos then Lima airports on the way.... Groan..
But its ok that didn't happen flight was good, this pilot wasn't as much of a cowboy as others.
So we get into Santiago and just wanna get our bags check them in for flight with Lan Chile, tonight..... oh no that's right check paper work... flight is tomorrow night the 14th not the 13th!!!!..... eeeeeeggits that we are.

SO within that, we have come into the city of Santiago to get us a nice hotel. Done. We have sat at a corner cafe watching the world (and ahem... very cute boys) go by..... that was nice. Yes been missing the Melb cafe culture but we have found it here in Chile!

Tomorrow the 14th the night we fly back to melb.... we are going to the Andes, along the Cajon del Maipo canyon, trekking to see the San Jose Volcano, a dip in the hot springs Valle de Colina, a view of a glacier and all back in time to get to airport TOMORROW night to catch plane to home..... just incase i forgot.... again...
Looking forward to seeing everyone as soon as humanly possible after the crazy flights.