this morning we arrived in ouro preto via an extremely misleading bus. see, when i got on the bus at 11pm last night from rio, i thought heeeeeey this looks like a really comfortable bus, which is awesome, because it's an overnight bus ride. it had pull-out, la-z-boy style footrests and everything. but oh man. i don't know why but it was so uncomfortable. we both barely slept. anyway, we stumble down this huge hill to a hostel and manage, in our half-asleep stupors, to ask for a room. the man was so very nice and he showed us to this room with a BEAUTIFUL view of ouro preto (roughly translated as "land of 1000 churches". or was that "black gold"?) in what i imagine to be an angelic fashion, he tells us to rest before
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