Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Quito
Jon and I are in his favorite internet cafe now. The flight down here were fine...kind of a long day as we got to SF at midnite, checked into the motel, and got up at 4:20 to go to the airport. I thought Cindy should go back and sleep some more, but she decided to go right back to Sac instead.
On the flight from Miami to Quito, I had to fill out a disembarcation form, but it was all in Spanish. I did my best, but I might get arrested for false information. When it asked for nombre, I said "Make my day, nombre." There were some boxes to check for why you were
going to Ecuador, there was a box to check for tourist. I thought about writing in "terrorist," but at the last minute, I just checked tourist.
On arrival at Quito, I cleared customs without incident. Jonny was waiting for me and we made our way out to the curb to get a taxi. I was really impressed with Jon´s Spanish as he negotiated how much taxi fare we would pay.
At Rosita´s I met everyone...lots of girls, still don´t know how many...Rosita was super friendly and made me some leftovers for dinner...she was very excited about the cosmetics and vitamins Cindy got for her. Heidi told us about the package from her mom...it was really big...she was hoping for some goodies...turns out it was just her new glasses and a parking ticket notice...not even a note! Heidi called her mom and gave her a bad time...
Jon and I decided to go down to the Internet cafe to call Mom. We hail a taxi on the corner...$3 for the ride...the city at night is like any other downtown...I wouldn´t walk it alone all the way...once we get to the European area, there are a lot of cars...so many that the taxi driver wants us to get out 2 blocks early so he can get out of there...no reduction in price though...LOTs of people...basically a crowd....$5 bar for all you can drink....most of the music booming from the cars. The internet cafe itself is neat...we look at all Jon´s photos that he has put on CDs.
We´re not sure what we are going to do tomorrow...possibly a train ride...possibly go to the cloud forest...possibly a tour of Quito... more to follow...
On the flight from Miami to Quito, I had to fill out a disembarcation form, but it was all in Spanish. I did my best, but I might get arrested for false information. When it asked for nombre, I said "Make my day, nombre." There were some boxes to check for why you were
going to Ecuador, there was a box to check for tourist. I thought about writing in "terrorist," but at the last minute, I just checked tourist.
On arrival at Quito, I cleared customs without incident. Jonny was waiting for me and we made our way out to the curb to get a taxi. I was really impressed with Jon´s Spanish as he negotiated how much taxi fare we would pay.
At Rosita´s I met everyone...lots of girls, still don´t know how many...Rosita was super friendly and made me some leftovers for dinner...she was very excited about the cosmetics and vitamins Cindy got for her. Heidi told us about the package from her mom...it was really big...she was hoping for some goodies...turns out it was just her new glasses and a parking ticket notice...not even a note! Heidi called her mom and gave her a bad time...
Jon and I decided to go down to the Internet cafe to call Mom. We hail a taxi on the corner...$3 for the ride...the city at night is like any other downtown...I wouldn´t walk it alone all the way...once we get to the European area, there are a lot of cars...so many that the taxi driver wants us to get out 2 blocks early so he can get out of there...no reduction in price though...LOTs of people...basically a crowd....$5 bar for all you can drink....most of the music booming from the cars. The internet cafe itself is neat...we look at all Jon´s photos that he has put on CDs.
We´re not sure what we are going to do tomorrow...possibly a train ride...possibly go to the cloud forest...possibly a tour of Quito... more to follow...
# posted by dennis @ 7:18 PM 
