Second day, yes. But it seems like the 4th one already. The mall+taxi driver+basic beach adventure added a lot of points to the "time usefully spent" rank. But there were no excuses to low it on tuesday. So, guided by our characteristic "adventurer spirit" (we previously asked the hotel lady were to take the bus), we got to got to this place called "Panama Viejo" (Old Panama).
I don't know what was I expecting for, but Lex's dissapointment was obvious. She was looking forward to see the "Panamenian-Mayan Ruins". There wasn't such thing. Our beloved ruins were some random shapeless pieces of history, broken, spread around and divided by a semi-highway. Nevertheless, the bus trip (in a typical Panamenian engangering-lives bus), the artcraft store that we found and the interaction with some natives of the place made it a nice moment. I personally like to walk around shapeless ruins and read their story. But if you are sleepy, and you had to pay 2$ to see such thing (we were planning to sneak in through a hole in the fence)... well, I think you reader understand my intention =).
The interaction thingy deserves a special mention. We met this lady (saying that she was pissed is implicilty understood), who made us pay the entrance and yelled at us when she thought we attempted to do it without paying. The other lady we met (oh, wow, she was not pissed!) was the lady of the juices. What a wonderful juice she made!. Lex chose the watermelon/pineapple, Jono got a melon/pineapple and I went for the banana/pineapple (I'm not that sure those were the elections). The last interaction was with this guy sitting next to the juice place, who told us about beaches and ways of getting there. We got to know that to get to an island we needed to get a plane for 50$ or a boat for 4 hours. Other option were the in land beaches, an hour bus from the city.
From there we came back (again, by bus) to the airport for busses. We ended up in the mall, had burgers, went to an Anime Store =) and to this toy place. Lex and Jono got there this interesting mind reader toy, and it's helping them with their spanish more than myself. After this, we decided to take a cab to the "Cosway" place: a pathway that enters the canal and has some nice restaurants and places to spend time in. Helped by our recently adquired taxi-skills, we got a ride until there for 4 dolars.
The place was very, very nice. We looked for boats to see if it's possible to get to Contadora Island, but we found the Taboga option for less dolars and less time (6$, an hour away). Then we got to know of the existence of this "aquarium-shark" place and we found this intresting bikes. Jono got a personal one, Lex and Me a double. We had an hour to ride, and we did with the sunset. It was beatifull... until we met the "other" Panama group. Some other students that came here for easter and distracted me when they yelled at Jono and came runing to embrace us. The consequecnce was Lex's foot accident: it got trapped between the pedal and a wall. From there on, we had to get a taxi and come back to hotel, given that she was not feeling god ("How bitter is Pez!").
Sleeping, eating. A couple of hours later, the foot was not better. I took Lex to the hospital and it was the highlight of her night. We got a wheelchair and she had a radiography a=in this freaking cold place. Everything was alright, in the end, but she can't walk for like two days. Will there be beach and aquarium place and everything else? We'll see... but it was a perfect excuses to chill out, anyway.
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