Guayaquil

This is where we have been while in hospital. It seems like a prosperous town, wide roads, lots of traffic and the prices in the shops quite high.

We were released from hospital too late to catch a plane yesterday but booked one for this morning. Unfortunately we missed the plane! The flight was delayed, but we kept looking at the departures board. Other planes had passengers called on the board but not ours. I went off to book my return flights to England and then Joanna realised that the plane was boarding. Apparently they had been calling out the boarding details – but hey – we don´ta speaka da spanisha, and so misseda the plane. It was sitting on the tarmac outside still connected to the gate for half an hour but they still wouldn´t let us get on it. Hey ho! Booked on one for tomorrow.

We went to the cinema this afternoon. Saw a film with Sandra Bullock (nice looking lady), who took in a homeless black kid who went on to be a USA Football star. It was entertaining although the environment was cold. They had the AC turned up high and so was like sitting in a fridge, not that I´ve ever sat in a fridge, but I´ve got a good imagination. Come on, you can imagine that too? Can you imagin what it is like putting your head in a washing machine and microwave at the same time, no, have an MRI scan then!

There was some uncertainty regarding our boat cruise around the islands up to this morning. Apparently the company we all paid money (in full) to last September have not paid the boat company and the whole thing was uncertain up to a few minutes ago. Chris and Mark on Blue Magic have taken the children on board and we hope to join them tomorrow (whever they are by then)!

I´ve booked my flights home. I get back midnight on the 24th returning to Galapagos on the 2nd April.

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~ by David on March 17, 2010.