Montanita and Guayaquil.. oh the traveling

So, yet another weekend I traveled.. I could totally get used to this when I get back to the states.. but then I would lose all my money cause gas is so dang expensive and there's nothing that fabulous around. ha So me and some friends decided to go to the beach again.. best beach yet! It's called Montanita and it's about 12 hours from Quito! We took an 8 hour bus to Guayaquil, the largest city in Ecudaor, and then took another one at 5:30 am to Montanita. The town was so cute and the streets were covered in sand. It was so lovely and what a nice day! We went to the beach all day and looked around all the stands on the streets that people were selling.. I bought a bunch of jewelry, go figure.. but they are for friends! Our hostal was really cool only cause I got to sleep in a loft! They told us they had a room for the 5 of us, but when we got to our room there were 2 sets of bunk beds so I asked and they pointed up and there was a ladder leading to a top part with 2 beds and a fan! It was lovely as well. So we spent a little more time at the beach on Saturday morning and walked down past the 2nd part of Montanita, where we climbed over some rocks and found a cool kinda peninsula thing.. me ryan and josh decided that we'd make the trek over to the point and look around.. the process was kind of ridiculous because if you went at the wrong time, the waves would crash you against the wall of rock, so we had to spend a few minutes preparing and counting waves and seconds haha. We got to see about 20 dolphins all together and it was sooo cool! None of us 3 had cameras. dang. Then jen and taylor came over and taylor cut her foot then I put a big hole in my heel when I stepped on some sharp thing haha. On our way back to the beach, as we walked across the boulders and crevices, ryan and I got sprayed really bad with a wave that came underneath and through the crevice and shot up real hard. It was hilarious.

In Guayaquil, after our lovely less than 3 hour bus ride was along the beach, we got picked up by a friend of my host mom's friend, who drove us around and picked us up and took us whereever we wanted to go the rest of saturday and sunday! He took us to the LIGA vs. Barcelona soccer game (really big rivalry), where there were only about 100 LIGA fans and we couldn't cheer for them because we were surrounded by Barcelona fans (who get a little out of hand and become dangerous to the opposing fans). when we walked in, we were walking down the middle of the side section and 4 rows up and 4 rows down all turned their heads as we walked by.. pretty sure we were the only gringos in the stadium! Needless to say, it was a blast and very crazy, and a tie. ugh. I hate that soccer games can end in a tie. (But they played each other again this past weekend in Quito and LIGA won!! woo hoo!) That night we had to eat some dinner and went to this place down the road from our hostal where the menu was a dry erase board with a few things written on it that did not make sense. When we asked each other what we got, we had no idea because really we had no idea what we ordered. it was delicious though. On sunday, G (i cant remember the rest of his name, but i know it started with a G) drove us to the Malecon, which is a very very long boardwalk following a river. It was so pretty outside and we walked the whole thing. We started playing on a playground, but got kicked off (there were only 3 other kids so i know we weren't disrupting anything.. the big people playground isn't as fun.. just work out stuff!) We went to 2 markets and got a few things then went to the biggest and nicest bus station i've ever seen here. also had the best drink i've had in ecuador called a frozen. we got back on sunday night at about 1030 and i was so tired! what a glorious weekend. oh yeah and every where we went, the 5 of us rode i the bed of the truck to get there! ha it was typical ecuadorian traveling and so fun.