Santa Cruz

Today we made it to Santa Cruz. We´re staying at the Residencial Bolivar where they have two toucans. Here´s one of them. The owner placed them on VC and my´s arms earlier today and let them walk all over us. It was kinda funny and a little scary with their beaks. However, they can´t really bit too hard with the beaks. We know because they got us pretty good.

This is a shot of September 24 Plaza in Santa Cruz. Anyone know how to rotate these photos??

It took us two flights from Rurrenabaque and these were some small planes. you could look out the pilots windshield because there was nothing between you and the pilot. On our flight from Trinidad to Santa Cruz, we served as a quasi-ambulance. There was someone on the flight who got into a bad accident. He was in a neck brace and had blood all over his face. I guess the closest hospital was in Santa Cruz because they loaded him on the plane and had an ambulance waiting when we landed. For some reason or another, he was the last person the got off the plane.

We´re staying at a pretty cool hostal that has a pet toucan hanging out in the courtyard. VC doesn´t want to sleep in the hammocks out there because he´s afraid the toucan will dump on him.

Santa Cruz is pretty cool. It´s a little weird with all the shops closing at noon and then everything reopens around 3 or so. The temperature is much more moderate than the jungle and we´re looking forward to relaxing tonight. KF and I hope to hit the bars tonight. Our route across South America hasn´t really taken us to the best night life areas but Carlos from Lima said Santa Cruz would be good. We´ll see.