Unusual escort

You might not have known, but Argentina really likes to take advantage of any reason for taking a day off of work. Like this Monday we have “Dia de la Bandera” (aka. Flag Day). Now, to be honest, I don’t really even know when Flag Day is in the United States. Anyways, that all is to say that this Monday was a national holiday and no businesses were open. So a few of us girls, Becky, Courtney, Sarah and I decided to get out of the city of a bit. We went to this place called Sierra de la Ventana; it’s about an 8 hr bus ride away. Of course, we waited til the last minute and got the plain old seats (normal bus seats) instead of the semi-bed ones. These are a killer. Didn’t really sleep the whole way. To me it seemed to be below zero in the bus (but we speaking in terms of Taylor…which may not mean that cold.)

We had told the bus driver that we needed to be dropped off at “Base Campamento” (a camping ground where we were staying) and the bus driver said, “No problem.” But before we knew it we had passed the place and ended up at the terminal. He promised, though, that he would get us there. And boy did he! Everyone else got off the bus, and the bus driver backed up as if to personally take it upon himself to get us there! (As you can imagine, we were laughing at this idea of a personal escort.) But little did we know that he was going to take us a few blocks to hand us off to the POLICE! Yes, the police. There was a police truck waiting for us and the bus driver told us to get off. The policemen threw our “packs” in the bed of the truck and we four girls squnched in the back. We were all thinking, “Are you kidding!” It was unbelievable! I thought to myself, “Only would things like this happen to us.”

So at 6:30 in the morning…bright and early in the morn…(although it was still dark outside)…we got in and had a casual convo with the two policemen listening to Robbie Williams play in the background. Talking about priceless moments. This was definitely one of those worthy for a Mastercard commercial!!!

The only sad thing is that we forgot to get a pic with them. No worries. Let’s just hope that my memory lasts long so that I can forever laugh about this one.