Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Day 1 - 7/23/2014 - Guayaquil, Ecuador


So we left our homes before 6:00 am and finally checked into our hotel (gorgeous) at 7:00 pm.  Long day.  Crazy coincidence – for the first leg of our trip we were on the same flight as another Lane Tech colleague on the way to her honeymoon – congrats Megan!  Short layover in Panama City where they sold empanadas in the airport – awesome.  Another 2½ hour flight and we landed in Guayaquil.  When we hit the tarmac the entire plane erupted in applause.  Katie and I were so confused – not sure if that’s a little tradition here or if safe landings are that rare.  Don’t really want to know the answer to that.  Hotel has a great driver waiting for us.  Impressions on our short drive – crazy driving, crazy cars, huge cemetery all above ground, some sketchy neighborhoods, lots of pick up trucks with kids and dogs riding in the back like I loved to do as a kid.  No Cubs game on TV in our room though L We settled for a badly dubbed-American dance movie.

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