First, we just want to say that we gave a little yelp of happiness to know that Obama will be the next president :) I just heard from my new Irish friend that 140 million people showed up to vote. The highest since 1908! Wow! I also hope that my good friend Loxi Ellingwood won whatever it was that she was running for (the only other familiar name I saw on the ballot when I voted on my "Emergency Ballot" during my visit home). Loxi, I´m not gonna lie, I didn´t have any idea what it was you were running for... but you had my vote hands down! Of course, if you had some signs to put in the front yard to show our support for you, we would have done it (in Ecuador too!).
Right now, we´re in Loja (see Lori´s entry, after about 19 hours on a bus, we arrived to find Loja closed). So, Monday we didn´t do anything. We walked around only to be hit with extreme exhaustion midday and took a nap. Everywhere we went "It´s closed because of the holiday", "It´s not working because of the holiday", "It closed early..." we know. Because of the holiday. We then went to the movie theater (which was more expensive... guess why...) and saw what we thought would be a mediocre movie and turned out to be soooooo great! How often can you say that? It´s called "La Misma Luna". You should all see it. It was a great, sad movie. Lori and Laura give it two teary-eyed thumbs up.Tuesday, we went hiking in the National
Park Podocarpus (named after the tree Podocarpus which is all over the place in this Park). Well, we only visited a small part of the park, because it is enormous! (1462.8 square kilometers) It was beautiful! We saw cool flowers, lizards (mountain lizards of course), amazing views, mountain stick bugs and lots and lots of... mud. We must have trudged through the mud for 2 of the 3 hours. Today, Lori´s and my legs are killing us.Today, we met a grand Irish bloke (with lots of policital statistics :)
and we went off to visit Vilcabamba. Weird name, old people. They say that the oldest people here in Ecuador live in Vilcabamba. They live so long, rumor has it, because of the water. Which, oddly enough was off today in the entire town. So, we couldn´t get a taste of this fountain of youth (or flush the toilets or wash our hands...) Bummer... nor did we see alot of old people, they were hidden away in someone´s basement we think. No, I´m just kidding!! But seriously, they say the people live until 100 years old or something! To say that time went by veeerrrrryyyy slowly in this town, is an understatement. It was soooo chill, one hour felt like 3 (in a good way). We spent the day like Irishmen and, since there was no water to be had (note dry fountain behind us), appropriately we drank beer :)Tonight - Off to Peru!
wow!!. Nice pictures. keep giving us all details about your exciting adventures.
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