hair that never dries, July 1st

Today we woke up SUPER SONIC early (aka 5:15 to shower and get ready) for Machupicchu. We rushed out the door with wet hair to make when Francisco rang the doorbell to say he was here. We ran to his car and drove to the bus station where he went over our plans and gave us our tickets. It was a cold, wet, and rainy morning and the wet hair didn’t help one bit. We got onto the bus where I fell asleep pretty quickly. All the sudden I awoke to a lot of noise from the people on the bus-IT WAS SNOWING OUTSIDE. This was not normal one bit-we weren’t even high up in the mountains. I woke Rach up to show her the snow and then eventually we both fell asleep again. We arrived to the train station in Ollantaytambo where we got on the train for another few hours. We finally arrived in Aguas Calientes {the town outside of Cusco}. We found our hostal-it was a small little place but luckily we at least had our own bathrooms and beds and could lock our door when we left. We took a short nap then went to lunch at Toto’s restaurant-it was a buffet and it was not only delicious but a fire was going inside so we loved it there. We ate well and went shopping in town-it was a lot of fun there yet still cold. We sat in the center of town for a bit and watched a dog chase birds and we laughed and laughed. We finally went back to our hostal and hung out more then left and found our tour guide at a local restaurant-he went over our options for Machupicchu and then we left back to our hostal to get some rest and talk of course. We talked and laughed and listened to music until we finally fell asleep around 8:45/9 because we had an early morning ahead of us.