Seventh day- exhausted.
Today was a day of transportation. I woke up to a morning of realization that I hadn't let my bank know about traveling so I had to skype and deal with that before walking over to an atm, only to find out they were out of service. Word of advice for traveling to Ecuador? Checking in with your bank and bringing lots of small bills. But after that whole fiasco, we started walking to get on the bus for Mitad del Mundo. What we thought would be an hour of traveling ended up becoming two hours, and most of the duration of the ride was spent being zombie-like forms standing wordlessly on the bus from complete exhaustion. When we finally arrived, we saw a menu to a restaurant that had a $2 meal of hamburger, fries, and coke, and to the starving souls that we were, it was sold! We then proceeded to look around at the shops, enjoy the view, stare forever at llamas, and stand with one leg in each hemisphere [but not really since the Mitad del Mundo is not the actual equator]. Even so, the idea that we were so close to the equator was enough to bring smiles to our faces and cause us to take some crazy pictures. Most of the bus ride back was spent on discussing our nicknames for the TQP jerseys we would soon be getting. And in this discussion, we became a crowd of slap-happy giggles in the exhaustion and lack of activities to keep us occupied. On the way back we stopped at El Recreo, finally giving me a chance to stop at an atm. Everything got crazy there because no one knew where anyone was and everyone was on edge. My suggestion to say something nice about everyone else was laughed off and in a blur of sleep-deprivation, we got back to our lovely home. Tomorrow should be an exciting celebration of 4th of July in Ecuador. Looking forward to it!
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