Panama City Day 2

Today I woke up and packed my things up. I had decided I was going to go try out the other hostel Panamerica. Then I went to eat breakfast. Breakfast is included and it is coffee, bread with jam and/or peanut butter and bananas. Yeah... Afterwards I went to explore Casco Viejo and see all the important sites. I also went to check out another hostel, hostel la cigar, that I had been told about. That hostel was terrible so I went back to my original plan of going to the one I had already booked.  A little before 12pm I went back to my hostel to grab my things and check out. I walked the 2 blocks to the other hostel and dropped my things off as I couldn'tcheck into the room until 1 pm. I then continued my exploration of Casco Viejo. By the way if you like old colonial type towns you will like Casvo Viejo. Afterwards I was hungry so I went and found something to eat. This place had so much good for cheap. It was a ey good bargain. After 2pm I went and checked into my hostel and laid down to rest. I watched some shows and then fell asleep. I woke up several times because the people were making noise.  I finally got up after 3 pm and decided I would try to catch the bus to Panama Viejo. My plan was to go to Panama Viejo for a couple hours and then come back to meet my friend Marcos. I had met Marcos through a conversation exchange website and he happens to live in Panama City. So anyway I set off to find the bus stop. Dariel had shown it to me yesterday but I couldn't quite remember exactly where it was. I am terrible with directions as anyone that knows me can attest to. I had a general idea of the location but still didn't know quite where it was. I walked around for a bit until I located the spot where I thought that it was, in front of a barbershop. I asked a guy and he said this was the bus stop. So I waited a bit and when a red devil bus came by I asked them if it was the bus to Panama Biejo. I was told no and that the bus was actually around the corner. So I went around the corner. I didn't see it so I asked another person. They didn't know so I walked up the street a little bit and was told it was around the corner and down a couple streets. So I walked around the corner and down a couple streets. This time I actually got to the bus stop for Panama Viejo but it wasn't the right bus. The city has 2 buses types. The nice buses like the ones in the US which have air conditioning and the red devil buses (aka chicken buses) that are old recycled school buses. To get on the city buses you have to have a metro card which I didn't have. I decided that I would just go back to the hostel and relax until I would meet my friend as it was getting late anyways. I went back and waited for them to get in touch with me. We met up after 6 pm. I met with him and his girlfriend. We walked around Casco Viejo with me as the terrible tour guide. I had already walked these streets earlier but couldn't remember which direction I had walked. After taking them the wrong way I recognized where I was and we set off. We walked along the water front, stopped for ice cream, and hung out near the water. It was a nice time overall. We hung out for a couple hours and then I went back to my hostel. Now I wanted to sleep but the people in the hostel had other plans. Earlier when I was taking a nap I kept waking up because of the noise in the hall. Now it only got worse. You can hear the echo form hallway in the room and the banging of the door. Then someone (not sure if it was this hostel or next door) kept a blender going like every 30 minutes past 2 am in the morning! To make matters worse it's i ly Thursday! Imagine what it would be like on e weekend! I couldn't sleep so I ended up watching shows until it got quite enough for me to sleep. I went to bed after 2 pm and had a restless night. Terrible!