I´m in Baños, bitch.

Ok. We´re listening to Led Zeppelin in the internet cafe here. Quito was a nightmare, but Baños is a green valley of mystic wonder. Imagine the coolest green valley with low hanging milky clouds everywhere and cute Ecuadorian children in uniform walking the streets and playing volleyball. Yesterday we settled in our hostel and then found a cool cafe down the street which catered to backpackers. The place was small with candles everywhere and colorful crap on the walls, and postcards galore(send your address if you want one). We had a quaint dinner and lizzie drank a huge beer.

We went to the natural hot springs last night at around 9. Like a 3 block walk from our hostel (which is really nice with tea and coffee and a honesty policy) with street dogs following us. Lizzie and I decided to just wear our clothes and swimsuits underneath with no towels or underwear in tow...The place looks like an outdoor bath house. And the first hotspring we saw was a full blown speedo sausage single festival, so we proceeded up the algae steps. Up stairs we shed our clothes in the 2x2ft changing room, and gave the bin to the lady and hopped in the family oriented hot spring. We lounged around with the kids wearing floaties, and admired the 100 ft waterfall coming down the mountain just next to the hot spring. After a nice soak we went to go change out of our suits. We decided to share a changing room again. Lizzie and I only had pants and a jacket each, so we ended up changing cheek to cheek and struggling to get our wet selves into our spandex attire. This is just the begining of our awkward encounters. Today we are going horseback riding up the side of the volcano, and then going on a night time volcano tour and then taking pictures of the purple basilica which lizzie can´t get enough of. We might head to Cuenca tomorrow or soak in some more Banos and cheek to cheeck action. Who knows. Hope everyone is doing well in the other world.

Also, the title comes from Lizzie´s saying everytime we reach a new location. It´s getting old...