Someone has probably already written or said something to that effect before, but if you’d like to quote it, you may reference me. Assuming that statement is true, then Neil and I did a darn good job of exploring Quito today. I think we covered half the city on foot. A few highlights or interesting tidbits:
-Apparently yesterday was an Ecuadorian holiday. Everybody in town decided to take the whole weekend off, so many stores and restaurants were was closed today. For most of the day we wandered around wondering where everybody was until we figured out waht was going on.
-We went by the U.S. embassy, figuring we’d be pretty welcome there. We were told that today the Embassy of the United States of America is only open for Ecuadorians today. I’ll just pretend that makes sense and move on.
-The Swissotel is really nice, and the concierge totally had no clue that we weren’t guests.
-Internet café, maybe not a highlight for you dear reader, but we did manage to send emails to our microfinance contacts in Ecuador and to a few people back home to assure them that we arrived safely,
-We went to the grocery store. The drinking age in Ecuador is 18. These two facts may or may not be related.
-We saw dirt bike races for little kids. Fue fantástico. Y yo tomé unos fotos:
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