It´s sinking in

I´m starting to realize that I´m gonna be down here for a while, not in a bad way though. Things have been good, Its just after being here for 3 or 4 days it just starts to be very real.

Our schedule has stayed pretty relaxed. On Thursday we went to the Equator, It runs right outside of Quito. The French calculated where it was in the 70´s and were around 200 meters off. So there is this big monument and tourist attraction park, thats not on the equator. The real equator is right down the road and there´s this tiny hole in the wall museum. We went to the hole in the wall. It was cool. They do little experiments for you that only work on the equator. Water doesn´t spiral down a drain right on the equator because there is no coriolis effect, but if you move over 5 ft. it does. Also when you stand on the line and close your eyes, you can kind of feel where to put your feet to walk along it, we debated this extensively. We went to the fake equator and tried it, definitely different, we think.

We´ve been napping pretty regularly, the altitude makes you tired. The food is amazing, and mostly cheap. We eat a lot.

Last night, Friday, We hung out with our old friend Rebekah Horowitz (who has been living in Quito for 4 mths), and a some of the friends she´s made in the city. It was her last night in Ecuador before she heads home this afternoon. It was a long and late night. I may have danced to bad 80´s music in a club (Thats all they have here apparently).

So far my Spanish is getting used, but not getting better.

We´re leaving Quito tommorow to start traveling around the country. It´s a nice city but kind of generic and loud and dirty, good food though. Our first stop is a village called Baeza to the east. You can hike to a huge waterfall from there. After that we´re going to a town called Tena on the edge of the jungle.