The other side of the world

I've been in and around Quito since I got back from the Galapagos Islands and it's been quite an interesting time... first of all I raced up to the equator to see how the water flushes on the other side of the world and sure as eggs, it does infact go the other way!!!!!! I couldn't believe it, they've got this little sink right, and when they pull the plug over the equator the water goes straight down, they move the same sink 2m to the south and it falls with the clockwise swirl that I grew up with out in Glenbrook, then 2m to the north it falls with an anti-clockwise swirl!! So that was cool, then me and Lee(a "dude" from California) went to prison to visit some convicted drug smugglers which was very interesting. Got some good stories to tell about that(including the one about the stabbing we saw right outside the prison) but you can ask me about that some other time.
Then we both decided that we were going to hang around for the Ecuador Vs Brazil football game(which was yesterday and an absolute blast!!! And Ecuador won too so we had a crazy night in town aftyerwards) so we shot out to Baños for a few days and did some Canyoning(absailing down waterfalls). cool little place with fresh cany getting spun up on every street corner and the dirtiest hot pools I've ever regretted getting into.
Then I got back to Quito to find that my "friend" Maria-Rosa from the Galapagos Isalnds had come up from Cuenca to visit me... sweeeeet!!! so we've spent the last few days bumming around together taking salsa lessons and sightseeing around Quito and stuff so that has been great. She even bought me an Ecuadorian football shirt to wear to the game yesterday... very nice girl:) just a shame we've got to say goodbye tomorrow because I'm heading up to Colombia, te quiro mucho mi corazón, te voy a extrañar muchisimo y nunca voy a olvidar en ti cierto! besos grandes, y te escribo pronto desde Colombia

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