STILL Panama City

There is so much pollution here. Its actually giving me something that I very very rarely experience, ALLERGIES. You can see the black smog just billowing out of like half the cars here..so sweet. Ive been having sneezing fits like its my job.

Anyways.

Yesterday we woke up at 430 in the morning and actually managed to get out of the hotel by a little after 5. That is unprecedented. Usually we require at least an hour...well...I would claim that I dont require more than 15 minutes, but thats another story.

The train left at 730 and was pretty badass. It was only like an hour though, which was annoying. We got free coffee and it went along a really pretty lake and the sky was blue and it was perfect weather for the whole shebang. At the end they also gave us a little box of snacks...jerk offs...wait till the END in hopes that we buy their ridiculously overpriced food. Three dollar can of tomato juice anyone? Luckily we didnt buy into the scheme, as we brough our own snacks.

We went straight to Zona Libre, which is the second largest duty free zone in the world. We wandered around aimlessly, looking at sunglasses and shit that was like half price but still way too expensive.

THEN, we spotted the liquor store.
And inquired about a handle of Stoli Vodka.
And wept and wept and wept when we found out the price.
TWELVE DOLLARS.

TWELVE. Are you fucking kidding me? Weep weep weep. Unfortunately there was no valid reason to purchase it, considering we will be flying soon and havent been drinking at all because of respective cruds.

We then went to Colon 2000, which is a touristy little complex with restaurants and stores and such, most of which were closed because it was still pretty early. And, as per usual, none opened at their advertised opening times. You usually have to count on it being an hour to an hour and a half later than what they claim. So we ate subway breakfast subs, which are bomb, and then caught a cab.

We asked the dude to take us to the bus station so we could go to Panama City, he told us cincuenta, which is 50, and anton asked if it was a dollar total? The driver said yes, and we were like oh sweet must be close. He then drove for like 15 minutes and was getting pretty outskirty...we asked him how much longer.

Hour and fifteen was his reply. WTF?, we asked. He was taking us to PANAMA CITY and was charging us 50 DOLLARS. Fucking retard. We told him to take us to the bus station in COLON, and he was like oh oh oh...oh....

When we got back we asked him how much he wanted.

Twenty Five.

So we laughed in his face and told him to fuck off, Anton yelled at him as per usual and we ended up giving him 3 dollars and telling him he was an idiot. Yeah, 25 dollars because you are retarded.

Whatever.

The bus back sucked because it was slow and hot and my cold is kinda in my head now and is annoying and sneezy and runny, but when we got back we froze our room and watched some tv and felt better. We ate hard boiled eggs (best street food) and subway again and wandered around and didnt do much the rest of the day. wow, i just figured out how to make parenthesis. And !. There should have been a lot more !!! but this keyboard is backwards and I just figured it out. Exclaim where necessary.

Today we woke up and showered and then it started FUCKING POURING, there was like a river running down the street. After it stopped, we worked on getting a box to mail a poster in, which took awhile and resulted in us at a hardware store having some guy saw through a cardboard tube. Random. Now we have finally figured out colombia, (flying out on Saturday, AT LAST), and yeah. I got some new books today. That is exciting.

Oh, the people working at subway here may actually be retarded.

Medio en Blanco Pan..
Blanco?
Si...blanco.

Dude slowly turns to look at menu behind him, slowly turns back, AH, Blanco!
Si...

Then proceeds to take 10 minutes to make a sandwich. I was freaking out.

Now Im out of time.