Almost Bus Highjacked - Ha

We wish we could post some pictures, but we can't download to a hard-drive to add as an attachment, so you'll have to picture this event.

We arrived at a very small port in Peru where the landscape was nothing but sand dunes and the smallest town that the ship has called. All of us wanted to go into town to see the sights (there were none), but we boarded the bus for a 30-minute ride to town.
There was a tour guide who was telling us about the sights, which we though was interesting, but we hadn't paid for a tour so this was somewhat unusual. Our bus turned off the sandy, dusty road and we arrived at a somewhat unkempt old museum. Our guide told us about the birds, penguins, seals, etc. that were at a small island adjacent to the small town. He would be glad to "make arrangements" for us to take a small boat to this island to see all the local wildlife. Our museum visit lasted about 20 minutes, but when we got back on the bus for the rest of the trip to town, they decided we needed to pay $2.50 each person for the museum stop.
Well, all the bus occupants decided we hadn't "signed up" for this visit and we WERE NOT GOING TO PAY $2.50.
Then it got interesting. The only car in the parking lot was a 4-wheel jeep and now it was parked in front of our bus. They wern't going to let us go until we paid-up!
We all laughed about our situation, but they were seious, but so were the bus occupants.
Some of the passengers got off the bus and were yelling at the attendant with the $2.50 coupon book in his hand.
Finally, after many conversations between the bus driver, the museum operator and the passengers of the bus they finally let the bus proceed to the city. As we left the parking lot, the Police came in on a motorcycle.
A little excitement for the day.
More stories as we move along the journey.
BMK Travelers
...at sea today.... formal night -- the fellows are really looking forward to this event!