Well, I'm not in Ecuador anymore, but there's a lot to fill in so I'm posting this from 'Quito'. It's my birthday--- I do what I want. My last three weeks in Ecuador were filled with sea lions, mountain treks, and being run off the road by an 800 person protest. My parents and I had a lot of adventures. The Galapagos Islands were amazing. My mother compared it to the Peaceable Kingdom, where the lion lays down with the lamb. Animals of every size and type were all living on these islands without any fear of each other. We'd see sea lions basking next to iguanas, birds nesting next to lava lizards, and nothing, absolutely nothing cared that we were there. You could have walked up to one of the birds and pulled out a
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