Hannah and I have been in Montanita for 5 days now. I feel like we are part of the town now! We have become friends with a lot of people at the surf shop and elsewhere. I have been actually improving quite a bit on my Spanish so that has been good!
We surfed yesterday (August 26th) but the waves weren´t very good and it was cold. It started out warmer today but by the time we got in the water it got cold and windy! The surf was better though. Hannah and I only surfed for about an hour today we were both feeling a bit lazy. We returned to our hostel and tooks naps. Mine lasted about 4 hours! We both have had minor stomach issues, Hannah seems to be having it worse then I am. To be specific (not sure if this is blog appropriate/too much information) I´ve just had a bit of diarhea certainly nothing bad. However after my 4 hour nap I think whatever little bug I have might be the reason why I felt so tired today!
We looked at prices for tours for whale watching and seeing Isla de plata today and they weren´t too bad. Whale watching alone was about $25 a person and to see isla and do whale watching it was about $55. Hannah wants to whale watch but I want to see the island more. Hannah is under a time crunch now because she leaves Monday late morning for Guayaquil and flies to Chile to start her study abroad program. She has to write a 5 page paper before she leaves and hasn´t done it yet. Whale watching takes about 5 hours (including travel time to Puerto Lopez). To do both it takes most of the day. So unfortunately for Hannah it looks like whale watching might not be in her near future since tomorrow is Sunday. So I will likely do the whale watching/isla de plata after she leaves.
The plan for the rest of the trip is likely to spend one day going to Puerto Lopez and likely spending the rest of the time in Montanita. I think we came to Montanita a little bit earlier than we needed to because we were both very excited about going to the beach. We´ve had a lot of fun here but there isn´t really anywhere close by to travel to that is worth the trip so we probably could have visited somewhere else along the way here. It has been good though, traveling around was very stressful and I think relaxing and maybe getting a bit bored here is very good for me!
I am getting a bit itchy to come home. Mostly just because I have already had to borrow $500 from the parents! Yikes! Oh well you are only in Ecuador once right? I think in future travels I would like to go somewhere and work/volunteer/go to spanish school for a month and travel different places on the weekends or something like that. Traveling around has been fun but a bit stressful and very mentally tiring at points. I think we also tried to see too much in a little period of time, however I certainly have been having a great time. The girls from San Diego we met are traveling throughout South America for 3 months, I´m not sure moving from place to place sounds that appealing to me, but I´m sure it will be an awesome trip for them.
Okay I think that is enough for now!
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