We made it!

Well we made it. Although the journey was a marathon of 27 hours on 3 planes across the US and finally here to Quito, Ecuador at almost midnight! Of course, the driver who was promised wasn't there, but taxi drivers are a universal breed and are easy to find at an airport! And Taxi is Taxi in Spanish!

This city is amazing, surrounded by enormous volcanic mountains with a massive statue of a virgin angel perched atop one of them. We are all set to go and check her out tomorow. Since we are used to Aussie style 'big'' things like guitars, sheep and bananas, I'm sure this chicka is going to impress. She is truly enormous.

I had forgotten just how short South American people are. We both look so tall. Eva is loving that of course although we stand out like classic gringos walking around the streets, (the fact that we were wearing thongs probably didn't help)? One boy tripped over today while walking along gawking at Eva! and many people made comments.

We haven't done a lot yet, just wandered around the streets getting used to the altitude, at around 2800m we are pretty high up and even walking can be tiring. We did check out an awesome church though (the first one is always awesome I guess) it is on a small hill, but dominates the entire Old Town part of the city like a Gothic behemoth ready to strike down any who dares not to believe.

This is the church - Basilica del veto Nacional

This is part of the view from the terrace at our hostel. The view is sublime, although this photo doesn't show it.