4
airports and 1 taxi ride and we are in Quito, Equador.
From arrival at the airport to
check in was less than one hour with getting through customs.
We are staying in
a small boutique hotel with 11 rooms, our room is beautiful. I expected
something like Europe, a tiny room. We have a separate bedroom and living room.
The living room has a bouquet of 2 dozen fresh roses, the room smells
fantastic.
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| Roses greet us in our room! |
Our bed is covered in rose petals as well as they are spread all
over the bathroom. It is an old farmhouse that has been converted into this
small hotel, very charming.
The lobby had about another 10 dozen roses spread
around, I guess roses are much cheaper here than in Canada!!
We just came back
from a quick cup of tea before bed in the lobby section. We are trying their
local Cocoa tea which is supposed to help with altitude sickness. Quito is
around 10,000 feet above sea level and we have been warned to be careful not to
over exert ourselves for a couple of days, since we are only here for a couple
of days I am not sure how to not do too much, so we’ll drink lots of tea, chew
the leaves if necessary, and take our chances.
Time to head off to bed, can’t
wait for tomorrow to do some exploring and see what the city looks like in the
day light. We saw the sunrise flying over North America this morning, and the
sun set flying over South America tonight, the world is certainly a small place
now.
Adding
to this why do they have a heater on in the room for us? We are Canadian and
they have a big electric heater plugged in and running in the bedroom, it
didn’t take us long to turn this off and take a layer of blankets off the bed.
I went to bed first, Andre followed shortly after, got in bed and hopped out
faster than I have ever seen him move. He says there is a cat under the covers,
he throws back the covers and it is a hot water bottle. We had one on both
sides of the bed but my legs aren’t long enough to hit the hot water bottle so I didn’t
get the same scare he did. It was so funny, I have never even seen one of those
things, now I know what they look like. I hate electric blankets and I didn’t
think much of the hot water bottle heater either, won’t be investing in one of
those.
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