Bleh. This has been a hard week and at first I didn’t have time to write and then I got stressed because I hadn’t which made me so anxious so I couldn’t. Vicious circle of my life.

So, anyway! We got an apartment! Whoop whoop! I found it through , we looked at it last Thursday and signed on Friday! Huge relief, since this was the only one of the 12 we saw that we really liked. Ok, true, we saw some nice ones in Carolina, but we said from the start we didn’t want to live among all the other gringos, and the only reason we even looked there was because it was impossible to make the real estate people to understand we didn’t want to live there. This was -not- a language barrier, it’s quite simple to say “We don’t want to live in Carolina” but it just didn’t go through.

The rest of the Friday was hectic, Ola had meetings and we had to by hinking shoes and swimsuits since Rebecca and Panchito had invited us to come along to Baños. We left around 6.30, thinking it would take around 3 hours to get there, but of course there was traffic so we didn’t get there until 11.30. Also, in the dark it was pretty hard to find the hostel, we were told to turn left at the police station, but of course we drove straight pass. It didn’t help that the road to the place was a dark, suspicious looking dirt road either. But we got there, safe and sound and crashed.
In the morning, we were served freshly baked bread, coffee, juice, honey and jam and local produced tomatoes before we hit the road again.
And hit it we did. First thing that happened, as soon as we left the dirt road and joined real traffic, was a flat tire. Ola and Panchito managed to fix it and were very proud. Rebecca and I hanged out with a puppy. When we got to the meet-up place in Baños we were just 15 minutes late and after signing some papers and been given rain boots, we and 4 others and 2 guides was off to adventure!