This post will be shorter than previous ones because it was mostly a travel day, and Jenny has gone to bed so I'll probably forget something without her assistance!
We did have a nice buffet breakfast at the Inca Real this morning; we've had "regular" ones the other days. I enjoyed the pancakes with syrup; Jenny had an omelet.
We packed all of our suitcases + the backpack we bought near the square a couple of days ago. We were afraid of being overweight in our carryons so we got the backpack- it counts as a personal item as long as it fits under the seat in front of us. We had no problems with weight, I don't think the folks at the counter even paid attention, perhaps because the flight was about half full. It was an enjoyable, short flight. When we landed in Quito, a guy from the Travellers Inn was waiting for us with our names professionally printed on a placard - impressive! Unlike some of the hand printed ones.
Once we got checked in, we went to dinner at a very nice little panaderia y pasteleria (bread and pastries) restaurant near the hostal. Deanne Davoll introduced us to it on the day before we went to Cuenca so I probably mentioned it. We ate ham & cheese sandwiches then had two scoops of yummy ice cream for dessert. We came back to our hostal, looked at some excursions we want to do, then came to our room.
One word of advice: when investigating hostals/hotels, determine if the "cable" tv is in your room or a common area. We discovered that we do have a tv but all programs are in Spanish. Of course, for those of you who do understand Spanish, that's quite alright but I haven't quite mastered the art of "bilinguality" (for you grammarians out there, I know it isn't a word but it sounds good!). We also now understand about expats in Ecuador not being able to get American tv programs here. In the States, if we miss an episode of a program, we can go to the network (CBS, NBC, etc.) and watch the program, as it will stream. When I tried that here, I could not access them because we are in a geographic region not authorized to receive them. We did, however, watch some of the performances on America's Got Talent 2011 - we watched them on YouTube!
So, that's about it! Jenny plans to work out at a nearby Curves tomorrow morning then we'll probably go to a dentist sometime after that. One of the hostal owners (or perhaps manager) will take us to his, who speaks English. Quito probably won't be as exciting as Cuenca, unless someone has spare time and wants to "show us their city", as Gerard Tretto and Diane & Juan Moreno did in Cuenca.
Hasta Luego!
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