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Published: March 31st 2009
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OK so I get back to Quito on Sat (28/03) early hours about 1am as the plane was delayed by just over an hour!!!! Not too bad get to check straight in and straight to bed.......the only bad thing is that the room is at the front of the hostel so you can hear all the noise from outside and it is really still fri night and however tiered I am its hard to get to sleep...........well I do in the end as well I woke up in the morning hee hee!!! Went to get all my stuff from storage and get told I am moving rooms which is not too bad as I do get moved into a private en suite for the night - I think I can cope with that!!! There is no sign of Laura just yet she must still be on the bus bless her..............
So I decide to have a bit of a sort out as I do need to wait for Laura but we need to get tickets as well............so when she gets here she is told that there is no room at the inn which is a pain as she has an
email saying all is good so we are going to head to toe in the single - well at least I know her unlike when I was in Ilha Grande!!! ;-) so we head out to the stadium to see about tickets and the response we get is 'nada´no tickets anywhere................hmmm so we hang around and get approached by a tout - well we knew we would!!! He did sell us tickets at $50 each which we knew are more than the gate price but then I have paid more for a game back home and this is Brazil after all!!! :-) Now we are just hoping that they are real and when we get here tmw we will actually be seeing the game!!! Hmmmm fingers and toes crossed!!! So today is pretty much a write off as we are both pretty tired so we head back to the hostel and chill for a bit before heading out for dinner.............we decided to try out the local English bar - it was like one of those ikle country ones with no one it but a loverly log fire.............yeah we left after one!!! Hee hee!!! Went for a real nice dinner and
a bottle of wine and just a real good catch up - its been about a mth after all!!! ;-)
OK so today is the day will we wont we.................we went for a bit of brunch before heading to the game as it is a free for all so you have to get there pretty early - KO is at 4 and we get to a seat (well a step that they call seats) at 1.30..............hmmm you can see that happening in England, I think we get to Spurs about 5mins before KO but hey at least we can soak in the atmosphere!!! We actually chose a pretty good place to sit right next to the man selling beer!!! There was also a big crowd of people next to us that were real friendly and spoke a bit of English which is always helpful and they were proper Ecuadorian boys would not let us buy the beer - well who are we to say no!!! OK so the Ecuadorians must be good we see the Brazilians warming up but not them.......interesting!!! Finally the game gets under way - on time but just seems like we have been here forever
already............the Ecuadorians make a really good start and the 0-0 half time score really flatters the Brazilians (no I did not think I would hear myself say that either!!!) they really should have scored a few goals, well at least one to help them out.............So the second half starts and it is all a bit more even but I still think more for Ecuador than Brazil, its a pretty good game not the thrashing I was expecting at all!!! C´mon Ecuador!!! OK then it happens - Brazil scores.............the crowd go a little quite but are still getting behind the team and it is getting tense they are trowing everything at them.............all they need is a goal..................finally it does happen the crowd go wild and beer is thrown from all angles..............can they get another................soooo close if only they had crossed and not gone for goal, but 1all was prob a good score for them but looking back there were far too many missed chances!!!
We head back towards the hostel area and have food and a few more drinks well its 2-4-1 cocktails after all!!! Did not stay out long tho headed back and watch some film in the hostel
with a few others there...........tmw its a full sightseeing day!!!
So today we head to the old town as I did not really see it all last time - we went to have lunch at a real cool place called cafe mosaic where you could see fantastic views of the whole city (watch for a theme here) - it was fantastic and even my camera, that is still not working all that well, took some good shots, unfortunately the cab did not seem to know where it was going so before we got there we did have to walk up far too many very steep steps - it was lucky there was a good view after all that!!!......OK we stayed there a while as the rain came down but then headed out to La Basilica where you can climb all the way up the clock tower!!! We initially went up the smaller of the 2 and there were some dodgey as stairwells but hey it all adds to the adventure!!! It was worth it though as the city is so vast we could see pretty much the whole of it...........we then went to the clock tower and seriously we
thought the last stairs were bad this one was even worst and the top of it did not even have a floor just some wire with holes in - yes we still went up there (look for the faces you will see) again the views did make it worth it and we even had a wee bit of sun to help us out!!! We went to a ikle cafe for late afternoon tea (I know sooo English ;-) ) and chilled for a bit (yes it was raining again - the tan really has gone!!) until we realised that had got dark and we needed to get back - oh well cab it was, I mean we had really done a lot of walking today I think we were allowed!!! We got back to the hostal and it was far to cold so we lit the fire and watched some silly american telly with a few of the others with nice warm soup - seriously how old am I!!!! :-)
So today is my last day of this adventure and we decided to go and climb a volcano - well why not, I cannot really do it at home
after all!!! So we get up pretty early (which was good seeing as we were woken up by some stupid 18 year old that can not handle his alcohol and had a 30min vomiting fit - well apparently it was ok as he did it in the bin hmmmm) and headed out to the cable cars to get us up 4100m and then there is apparently a 600m walk to the top..............OK so it was not as great as it could be seeing as we could not see anything through the clouds...........which did really make the whole trip a tad pointless but hey was a fun thing to do on the last day.............I then headed to the markets for last min pressies and now I am off to pack and have one final night in Sth America.........
See you all soon and thanks for all your messages was real nice to hear from you all
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awesome pics