Cuenca

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Forenote: More pictures will perhaps be added later if they haven't dissolved by the time we find decent internet.

In Cuenca:
Breakfast of champions and recovery patients. We decide on leaving tomorrow. We walk a lot to get familiarized with this nice cozy town of Cuenca whose streets are easily navigable and whose shops are varied unlike (cough: Baños) some others we’ve been to. We get ingredients for lunch just like we did for breakfast. We get ingredients for dinner, including an American film, lots of baked goods, a green pepper, and a new Colombian film without subtitles that should help improve my Spanish or I’m going to ride a log standing up over the largest waterfall in Bolivia.

Breaking Blog News: I want to start a vlog (video log) to go with my blog. It will have segments ranging anywhere from 8 to 90 seconds in duration and may possibly contain such awesome information as the following: a view from where we are; live footage of us saying what day of the big trip we’re on; something uninteresting about the weather; something interesting about our activities. Stay tuned! There will be a link that you can check!

We have such a great view out of the sixth floor of this hostel that we keep returning to take pictures off of the terrace even though it has been on and off rain the entire day! Why is it raining so much on this nice towncityvillage?

The president of Ecuador will be here on Thursday to give a speech. We will be listening elsewhere instead to people in Vilcabamba who have learned how to live longer than almost any other concentrated population in the world.

The two highlights of the day were as follows: running into our two friends who are living somewhere mysterious in California; running into two boys playing futból on the sidewalk at night and joining in for an awesome 30-second whooping, yelling, “Vamos! Venga, venga!” The latter occurred on our way back to the hostel with a 5-litre container of water and a little red caboose Gatorade.