Finishing Up Ecuador Part I

Hello friends!

I'm sorry I haven't posted in a while - getting back to "real life" can take some time!

As I mentioned in my previous blog post, we were scheduled to fly home Saturday night/Sunday morning.  That all went well and we arrived safely at our destinations (the majority of us flying back into Utah).  Let me tell you this, though: traveling overnight is NO FUN.  My older brother often makes red-eye flights from California to New York so that he doesn't miss a day of work.  I don't know how he does it.  I hardly slept at all on the plane and by the time Alec picked me up at the airport, I was running off of about 6 hours of sleep for the past 48 hours.  Anyway, props to my older brother for being a master red-eye flyer.

So you may be wondering about our last few days in Ecuador!  In the last blog post, we were still in Guayaquil.  I believe I posted on Thursday, May 19.  On Friday, we flew to Quito and stayed at a hotel there.  That evening, we didn't have much time to go places, so we went to a nearby market and then got something to eat.

Are you wondering where we ate?  Well, you are in luck because I will tell you because it was SO GOOD.  It was a place called Crepes & Waffles.  And guess what?  They serve Crepes and Waffles!  But besides that, they also serve other delicious food.  I got the vegetarian pita, which was so good that I bought another one the next day.  If you are ever in Ecuador, hit up that place!  I think it is mainly based in Quito, so you will have to go there.  Here's the link: http://crepesywaffles.com.ec

The next day was adventure day!  We got up in the morning and hit up an adventure place called Xtreme Sports or something like that.  I can't find a link for it and I am sad because that place was amazing!  Here's a picture:

What you can't see here is that I am actually on the edge of a cliff.  The zip-line took us across a canyon - I was hundreds of feet up in the air, just gliding on a cable!  For someone who dislikes heights, I think I did a pretty good job of it.  In fact, it wasn't scary at all!  I honestly felt like I was a bird, soaring across the sky.  I thought I would be too afraid to look down, but once I started looking at how beautiful the canyon/view was, I wasn't scared at all.  Seriously, it was so amazing!  This was my first time zip-lining too!

Another adventure that we went on at this place was the "Tarzan Swing".  What they did was strap you to a rope, and then you hang over the edge of a 50-foot drop until they let you go.  Once they let you go, you are free-falling straight towards the ground until the ropes hits its length and you go soaring up.  I was so terrified!  As I mentioned before, I am not a huge fan of heights, and free-falling downwards went against everything my body has done so far to keep me alive.  I was hanging over the edge, so scared I couldn't move, and then I was falling.  What a rush!  Once you start swinging, you feel really cool, but I was yelling uncontrollably until then.  So scary.  So fun!

So that's part one of the day of adventures.  I just realized that I don't have my camera on me, so I can't talk about the other parts of the day until I upload those pictures, so this post will have to do for now.

Toodles!