multiple taxis

Yesterday was fantastic. A whirlwind trip to Guanajuato was taken by about 8 of us stationed here in San Miguel. We decided to scout out the city as Sarah's niece, who was here in S.M.A., used to live there. Immediately after class, we hopped in a few taxis and headed to the bus station. When we arrived we bought first class tickets on Primara Plus, a highly recommended bus line. When we were about to board, we were all delighted to find that our 90 peso ticket included a bottle of water or soda and some oatmeal cookies. Plus, there was a movie. And reclining seats. The bus ride was about an hour and a half and full of exciting things to see like horse drawn plows and donkeys galore. When we arrived in Guanajuato, another taxi ride was taken into the center and the exploration began. All in all, we spent just shy of three hours in this amazing city. On Saturday, we are going to go back to see the attractions like the Don Quixote Museum, Diego Rivera's house and the Mummy Museum. So when we were on our way out, we had to hitch yet another cab. We flagged one down in the city and hopped in. Despite there being cabs everywhere, our cabbie was adamant that we use his friends cab that was supposedly right behind us. Our first group hopped into the first cab. The driver got out, told us to wait inside and was ushering the rest of our group to his friends cab. During this ushering time, the cab driver I guess left his car in neutral because all of a sudden, without warning, our vehicle starts to roll backwards down the hill into oncoming traffic. He chases the car, dives in, starts it up and reverses the car in the nick of time to avoid hitting the car behind us.