Sunday, February 23, 2014

Guayaquil, Ecuador-

We rode in a bus all night and then arrived in Ecuador. We had to cross the border to Ecuador. It was fun to get another passport stamp. It is so easy to get into other countries. I don't picture it being that simple to get into the states, but I guess we'll see. On Sunday we woke up and had a tour first by walking. We went around the city. We saw the iguana  park and a really pretty Catholic Church. I guess since it was Sunday we spent about 10 minutes sitting in the church. It was really pretty. 

The iguanas were just kept in front of the building. All over the landscape. 

After walking around the city for a few minutes we were able to take a bus tour. 

We had fun on the bus tour listening to music and dancing on top of the bus. Now that I think about it. We did not so the bus your on Sunday. I do not remember what day we did it on though. So I will leave it in this post. After the city tour and the iguanas we went on a boat tour. Not a bus tour. The boat your was fun. Me and Tami became friends on the boat tour. We sat next to eachother and talked the whole time. We danced some on the boat too because I asked the driver to turn the music up.  

Tami is the red head 

After the boat ride we went to a square full of turtles. They keep a lot of animals in the middle of the city there. It is weird. I don't know why they do it.

After the turtles we went and ate lunch. It was at a pretty spot near a river. We stayed there for hours. I took a nap on a bench near the river and fell asleep. I also read a bunch of chapters from the Book of Mormon and listened to music. Others went shopping around the area. It was just a lazy afternoon. 

That night we had free time when we returned to the hotel. Me and tami ate a mcdonalds and played in one of those inflatable balls that goes on water.  It was the Election Day of their mayor so there were big celebrations that night. Everything was closed and mcdonalds was the only place we could find open. There were fireworks for awhile though. So that was cool.  That was all we did Sunday. 

I don't have a picture of my in that floating ball. Only a video. You can see part of it in the first firework picture though. It was really really fun. I have wanted to do that my whole life.