First Day

We'll we finally made it! What a travel day it was; almost 19 hours of travel. Yes, we were all a bit tired once we arrived, but still had enough energy to walk around Quayaquil. The city is very poor and very loud; people are not shy about using their horn as they drive through the narrow streets. The weather is warm, humid and a bit cloudy, but feels very good. This is going to be a great trip!

Hailey here, this was a very interesting, exciting and eventful day!!! The first flight left at 1:30 this morning morning and we had 4 flights total to get here to Gauyaquil. Unfortunetly on the third flight I wasn't feeling to good and barfed all over myself and mom. That was fun. HAHA! The hotel is acutally fancy for here but in the US it would be like a "Best Western" which is fine. The central park in town is nice. Well it was beatiful for me until I saw the 100's of three foot long Iguanas hagin' in the trees. Ya, it was kind of a surprise. I will take some pics of those tomarrow and post them. I am very excited for our tour of Guayaquil tomarrow and will take pics so you guys can all see!

wow Ecuador is very...different than i expected, i am the only one that thinks that it is a bit like New Your in that they are both huge big cities with busy streets and many honking horns but NY is well, lets just say a little more sophisticated. Anyways the flights were annoyinly long and there is NO starbucks here :[As i sit here woking on my independent stury for health this summer i think to myself how excited i am for the fun upcoming events!
written by: Hannah Levien

Hola everyone, this is Lisa! We decided on a family post tonight as we are all pretty delirious from the long travel. Leaving at 1:30 in the morning was tough and I thought I'd sleep but...not really. I did get a peak of the sun coming up and it was quite beautiful. We arrived as everyone above said after four flights Oakland -> El Salvador -> Costa Rica -> Quito, Ecuador -> finally Guayaquil. Guayaquil is a busy, bustling city. We are in the center of it...we had dinner at the hotel tonight including a drink it was $3.95/person. It was good, lentils, rice, plantains and some meat of some sort. We have an Ecuadorian from Guayaquil named Roberta that is essentially taking care of us! We have a tour of the city tomorrow after we have a morning swim workout at an olympic sized pool in town. I'm very happy to be here and enjoy this country.