I love a country where you’re never too far from a Dunks. I could do without the McDonalds and KFC though (but ask me on day 3 when the kids don’t like any of the local food!).
We arrived last night at 10pm after a full day of travel—and we got first-class on the plane! Sometimes the stand-by gods are on our side!
We had a fun day of walking up 444 steps (we went the wrong way up, of course, so it was more like 600, but whose counting? Actually the steps were numbered so I guess someone was).
We spent the rest of the morning sight seeing and shopping for bathing suits for the boys. I packed mine but apparently was in charge of the kids and Stu’s also, oops. We looked in every shop for one small enough for Lucas to no avail. We were sitting outside when a shop worker chased us down and said she had one—word travels fast when a sale can be made.
Damn kid wouldn’t go in the pool anyway without a proper swim shirt and went into total meltdown mode, at which point I when I went into total mojito mode. Nothing a mojito can’t fix right? Don’t worry I got one for Stu too, which I spilled and had to give him half of mine so he wouldn’t laugh at me, and I did get the kids ice cream.
Overall a good first day Guayaquil Ecuador which also included lots of iguana sitings, a giant Ferris wheel ride, 5 cats (purritio, 2 cafe cats, Oreo, & butterscotch…yes, Lucas named them), ceviche, a sunburned neck (how am I the only one??), a few card games while we waited for the power to go back on (no idea, but the whole city went black a few times), and a crazy experience at a huge marketplace with 6 people trying to understand and then find us an ankle brace for Curtis….$20 later for a $5 item, at least we fed 6 families for a month.
buenas noches mis amigos!
This is me….the perfectly imperfect woman. 