Mindo Weekend 1

Sooooo.... the weekend trip this time was SO much better!!! I went with three girls to Mindo, a small ¨pueblo¨ town in the mountains. It was so cute! Pretty much there was a main street. And that was it. The people there were so sweet and catered to tourists. We took a bus - about two hours, but my Dramamine worked this time, so I finally understood what normal people feel like on a long car-ride. I could look out the window as long as I wanted and never once felt slightly sick! It was heaven. When we arrived at Mindo, there was a woman who was looking for Julie - at first I didn´t respond, although it was too much of a coincidence, but finally we realized she was with the hostel. It was called Hostel Sandy and it was like a wooden cabin in the woods. Wooden everything with a living room and bedrooms with a bathroom in each. My favorite part - the only thing you could hear was the sound of water. There was a pretty big creek right outside our window. It was extremely peaceful, especially compared to Quito. We checked in and went to dinner. I had enchiladas, which were delicious. We were served by a boy about 12 years old. He was adorable, and very attentive. We stopped by a store to buy chocolate and wine. Within a few minutes we realized we had neither cups nor a wine opener. We figured the hostel would have cups, but we asked the store owner if she had a bottle opener. She said yes, but we realized several minutes later that she had sent her daughter home to get one. So sweet! (And how often, in a town of maybe a couple hundred, do you sell a $9.00 bottle of wine?) We opened it, stuck the cork back in a ways and went back to our hostel. Unfortunately, when we got there we realized we had stuck the cork in too far! We had to use pens and bobby pins to get it back out! Hilarious! One of the girls had her laptop and the movie Up, so we snuggled up and drank wine, ate our chocolate bars, and watched a very strange movie. My cough has been fairly okay during the day, but fairly miserable during the nights, so I headed to bed early, so by the time my cough died down, the others would be able to sleep.

To be continued...