bus incident

so i thought i'd tell yall about a day that was a few weeks ago and was ridiculous.
My friends, Ryan and Taylor, and I were leaving school one day and we always have to take a green bus back to Quito (because our school is in Cumbaya). We asked the guy that collects money on the bus if he was going to Quito and he kept saying El Sur and sube, sube (get on) so we got on of course. We realized about 10 minutes into the trip that we were NOT going the right way. We decided maybe we could get off and take a bus back to Cumbaya, so we stared out the window for a good 5 minutes and saw no buses passing by.. only charter buses and cars. Crap. So then it started raining and we knew we were going to have to get off at some point because we really didnt want to go all the way to downtown Quito because it's like 45 minutes from our houses. We decided to get off at a stop that a ton of people were getting off on, but disappeared after (and i have no idea where they went).

Of course like 2 seconds before we got off the rain started POURING. Probably the hardest rain I've seen here so far and it rains a lot. Our clothes were soaking wet as soon as we got off the bus. We asked the bus driver of a blue bus if we could get back to Cumbaya and he told us we needed to cross the road and there would be a bus coming from the other way. We didnt realize it until we stepped onto the road that it was a fricken RIVER. Our shoes and our pants almost up to our knees got even more soaked than they were before and we continued to cross the road. Taylor was wearing high-heeled boots and Ryan did not have a rain coat. I decided I would pull out my umbrella (cause that was going to help us get dry? i dont know) and of course it was at the bottom of my bookbag underneath the set of clothes that were in that section. I also had a tennis racket, a box for photography and some tennis shoes that i was holding.

We heard some laughing and turned around to see 2 kids standing underneat a trashbag laughing at us. so we waited there for a few minutes while it was still pouring down rain and then, just like in any movie where unlucky things happen, a car drove by pretty close to us and a wave of water came onto us. ridiculous. we waited a few more minutes and there certainly was not any buses coming so we decided to take a taxi and we'd just split the taxi (even though they are cheap already). so we told the guy we wanted to go back to cumbaya and he was like get in.. we were soaking wet with all of our stuff and decided to take some pictures so we could capture the moment and were talking in english the whole time (which is typically not smart because they will charge gringos more). we did not recognize where we were a few times and had to make sure the taxi driver knew we were still going to cumbaya (he probably thought we were idiots) and of course we still were.

Then, we started going through a random neighborhood and decided that the taxi driver was going to take us to his house and kill us so we started plotting (ryan suggested i use my tennis shoes to knock him on the head and i decided i would use my umbrella because it was harder). we finally got back to cumbaya and the cab ride (which was really on like 10 minutes) cost $8 which is way too expensive but we payed it anyway. then we ran to catch another green bus that was actually going to rio coca (the bus station we have to go to) and stood up the entire way because we were so wet we didnt want to get anyone else or the seats wet and it would feel real nasty to sit down. the bus ride to quito is about 25 minutes and i still wasn't very good at standing up on them so i bout fell a few times.
ha what a day.
needless to say, we were laughing the entire time and probably looked liked the biggest idiot gringos ever. it was even more interesting trying to tell this story in spanish to my family, but i always have some kind of adventure to tell them (they probably also think i'm an idiot). ridiculously amazing, funny, stupid, wet hour (or more) of our lives here in ecuador.