mas adventura

this morning we spent a lovely morning in canoa, which was one of my favorite towns in ecuador so far. "precious" is ali and my choice word to descirbe it. i wandered around the beach and the town while the other three went swimming and took some pictures on ali's camera. we're now down to two cameras since annie misplaced her wallet (with a camera, $3 and a non-functioning credit card) and now it is gone. luckily i have my extra 8 gig memory card so i think we'll be fine. we packed up and took a bus and a ferry (which seemed dangerously close to capsizing once) but we made it to Bahía de Caráquez, a moderate-sized city on a peninsula. We spent a while wandering around and enjoying the very calm atmosphere (aka it's sunday and everything is closed and it took us quite a while to find a restaurant, but it was yummy when we did). Then we spent a while more trying to find an ice cream parlour (they're called heladerías here) but when we did it was basically the best ice cream we've ever eaten. We're going to relax here for a while, hopefully meet up with Taylor and her dad, and then head to Puerto Lopez tomorrow!

Love Alex