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Saturday, 31 March 2012

Made it to Ecuador - Thursday and Friday

Just a quick update..

We had chilli's for dinner in L.A and caught our plane to Miami arrived at 5:30 am and caught a kip for a few hours and grabbed some breakfast of Pancakes, scrambled eggs, toast and sausage, whilst waiting for the bus to take us to the Dolphin Mall.






Had a look around the mall for a couple of hours, Nando grabbed some new shoes and socks, got some Hair band for the girls and then caught the bus back to the airport. Grabbed some Wendy's and Hawaiian chicken for lunch. Then slept some more.

Boarded our plane, which turned out to be broken, so they worked on it for about 45 mins before getting us off the plane and sending us to the other end of the airport to board a new plane. Had to wait for 1 hour before it was ready for us to board.

Arrived in Quito at 9:30pm line up for Customs, who didn't want to accept that Nando was Australian and was born there, she insisted on asking for Ecuadorian paperwork that he doesn't have and insisting that he give her his real name.

Eventually a team leader came over and told her to put him in as an Australian and we are clear.

Collect all our bags and Nando's is still missing so had to wait in line with everyone else who had lost bags and everyone who had missed their connecting flight due to the delay.

Registered his bag lost and now we wait.

All the family had come out to meet us and had been there since 7pm we didn't emerge until 11pm. Then the one hour drive to get to our destination and our awaiting dinner which went down well..

Then showers was the next important thing on the list and finally sleep.

Got a good nights sleep and surfaced about 10 am.

Had Toasted Ham and Cheese sandwich with narajilla juice. They are little fruits that look like miniature oranges, and smell like something that should be thrown out, the juice is green ( I will have to take pics when we make it again). It tasted soo good.

For Lunch we wandered up the street to one of Nando's Aunties house and had  serviche ( Cold seafood soup) roast pork, salad, potato patties, avocado, chicken. For desert we had a bomb cake ( again I was slack on the photos) it had an oreo base, then a chocolate and liquor mousse like filling and then covered in chocolate that was hard like ice magic.












There was so much food we ate this for dinner as well.

In the morning we are going to see if Nando's suitcase has turned up or buy him some clothes. I laid him out a nice skirt and top but he declined.

Apparently the rest of our days have been planned out, with what I have no idea.

2 comments:

  1. Good to see you guys finally made it to Ecuador (where all the best food is by the looks of things)!

    Also - "smell like something that should be thrown out". You're awesome, this made me laugh out loud at work.

    We miss you!

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