lazy...

So I've been too lazy to write but a lot has happened in the past couple weeks...

hmm...I don't know if I can remember it all, but I'll try.

Two weekends ago, 7 of us girls went to a town called Montanita for the weekend. We had Friday off of classes because it was a holiday...well everyone and there mother apparently travels on this weekend so it was really hectic, but it was a fun weekend nonetheless.

First off, the bus ride was an experience in itself. We left around 10 pm on thursday night on a bus. This bus took us to a place called Guayaquil, which was about 2/3's of the way there and this took us until around 645 am or so. If you do the math, that's around 9 hours. =\ Then in the bus terminal we had to buy our return tickets for sunday to go from Guayaquil to Quito and also buy our tickets to go to Santa Elena (or something like that...but also NOT montanita, yet). So we got both tickets and got on our bus to Santa Elena after asking like 10 people where our terminal was and being led to 5 different ones....but we finally found it. Two hours later, we got there and had to legit run to the next but that would take us to Montanita (finally)!! AND an hour and a half later we finally arrived around noon. We were exhauseted so we found a taxi and got to our hostel and put all of our stuff down and decided to go out to the beach.

We found out after we got home that it is ALWAYS overcast in Montanita...which would have been nice to know beforehand, but even with the cloudy skies, it wasn't all that cold. We spent a little time on the beach once we got there but then we decided to walk down to the little town and find something for dinner. We ended up eating at a little hippie place and then came back to the hostel pretty quickly. I don't really remember what all we did the rest of Friday, but I do believe we went to bed pretty quickly that night. We were all exhausted from our trip.

The next morning, we woke up to eat the continental breakfast that our hostal served. It was a breakfast burrito and pinapple. It was pretty good. Then we all walked into town to buy our bus tickest for the next morning to get back to Guayaquil. Thank goodness there was a bus that went strait there and we didn't have to worry about switching, but unfortunately, we had to leave at 515 from our hostel to leave around 545. =\ But once we bought them, we all felt so much more relieved that we had tickets to get all the way home.

We started off the day with a some beach time. While everyone else was swimming, Meghan and I went and walked out onto this big rock which is pretty much just a bunch of crab homes. It was crazy the amount of crabs we saw, but once we got to the end of it we got some sweet pictures of the water crashing on the rocks. Once we got back, everyone else was done swimming and had gotten showers, so Meghan and I went out into the ocean by ourselves for a while to do some wave jumping. When we got tired we came back and got our own showers.

Then it was time for the surfing lessons. I didn't bring enough money, so I didn't get to go, but Haley, Kelsey, and Sachiyo all had about an hour and a half surfing lesson. It was so funny to sit on the sand and watch them all attempt to surf. =] After a segnificant amount of wipe outs, we all were pretty much done with the beach. We didn't really go eat lunch, so we just snacked in the room (illegally, might I add...) and just hung around until dinner time. We went to another little restaurant and ate pizza for dinner. Then as we were walking around, we found a place that was playing music, so we payed the $1 entry fee and went in to dance for a while. It was really fun and a few of the girls got asked to dance. Nikki got a little uncomfortable when our friend Miguel started hitting on her so her and I left a little before the rest of them. We walked back to our hostel and then we very soon followed by the other girls. We stayed up for a while talking, telling stories and getting to know each other a little better. =]

In the morning we got up and gathered all of out things and headed to the bus station. The bus ride home was a little shorter because apparently our little side trip to Santa Elena added an extra, unneeded hour to our trip. =\ So, we got to Guayaquil around 9, I believe and then we had to wait until noon for our next bus to leave. We got some food and played plenty of card games until it was time to leave. We got on our bus and got back to Quito around 10 pm.

It was a reeeeally long but trip, but the weekend was a success. I'm glad we got to go and got to relax a bit.

I will post again in the next couple of days about our trip to Rio Muchacho that we just got back from because this post just took all of my energy. =]


Buenas Noches


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