A lazy Saturday in Quito

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We´d agreed to meet the others at Starnet at 9.30 with the intention of going to Cotapaxi for the day. However, after talking it over the previous night with Silvie and Lorena and consulting the Lonely Planet it wasn´t actually feasible to do as a day trip so we will have to save that for next time we´re up in Quito. We were only half an hour late meeting the others (which is on time by Ecuadorian standards anyway) to find they´d already moved on to the Coffee Tree to have breakfast. We actually had a good reason for being late as we were making Belinda a card using all our school equipment - knew it would come in handy! Bel stayed at home as it was her birthday and she was expecting a call from home but us six went to Parque de Carolina to spend a lazy day, stopping off at the supermarket on the way to get a picnic. $26 for all six of us - very impressive I thought especially as we didn´t even manage to eat half the stuff we bought. We also stopped off in a random shop that seemed to sell everything where we finally found bikinis! Our intensive three day is finally at an end although I´m not sure how well they will fit - Ecuadorians seem to have funny ideas about clothes and it´s quite insulting having to buy size large in everything!

We made it to the park totally by accident in the end despite several consultations with the map and settled down with far too much food. The boys went to sleep as soon as they had eaten (typical really!) whilst Louisa decided to do a gymnastics display on the grass - fair enough!

Split up to walk home as we live in opposite directions stopping off in the internet cafe where it´s beginning to feel like we live!

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Comments

[Jeannie]

what do you mean you couldn't eat all the food?
Well that's more adventurous, picnics in the park! Sounds very relaxing. Wish I could. It's back to the gremlins this morning with more questions to answer.Love Me. P.S. internet was playing up yesterday. Hope you got the emails? Have a great last couple of mad days in Quitto

[Keely]

Avast Matey!
Katherine, has any one ever told you you look positively radiant with mudd on your feet? You should wear mudd more often. Sorry I haven't been able to reply! But it soundsl ike your having fun fun fun! You keep getting prettier in each picture. HOW THE HECK DO YOU DO THAT?!?!!? anyways! To make your day even better, it was discovered yesterday that President W. Bush has been seeing a Dominatrix! HA! What do you think of that!?!? If Clinton was impeached for doing his secratery, shouldn't Bush be impeached for cheating as well? I call for Impeachment! Any ways! I'm SO glad your having fun there, and meeting friends and salsa dancing until 3 in the morning! Spanish is easy to pick up, and honestly, the only way your ever going to REALLY learn it is by speaking to the locals in as much spanish you know and asking them how to say things. Also, speak in spanish as much as you can with your fellow friends, so that you get in the habit of speaking it^__^. that's best advice I could give you on learning a language. And now that this post is rediculously long, I shall leave you. Have fun and I'll post more often! -Keely