J & J's South American Adventure

Today was our last day of Spanish class in Quito. Neither of us was very enthusiastic about another day of learning new vocabulary, adjectives and verbs (yeah, weak, we know), but when we finished at noon we were happy we took the time to start learning the lingo.

After we said our goodbyes to the kind folks at Apu Inty, we caught a taxi to Old Town and dropped our big backpacks at Hotel San Francisco de Quito, where we´re gonna stay when we get back to Quito tonight. With our small backpacks in tow, took the Trole to go to the bus station, bought our bus tickets, and soon were on our way to Otavalo.

The bus ride to Otavalo was pretty uneventful...it took about 3 hours and we endured the cries of "Otavalo, Otavalo, Otavalo!" every time we stopped to pick up new passengers. Of course, we couldn´t take a bus ride without macho gun-toting movie star on the TV. This time instead of Dolph Lundgren we watched The Governator (Arnie, duh) and Alissa Milano in the movie ´Commando´. My money´s on us seeing ´Rambo´ on the next bus ride!

We arrived in town, checked into our hotel, Hostal Dona Esther, grabbed some delicious seafood in town, and turned in early for the night.