Forget4Explore

Island life is treating us very well. After our busy week of exploring, we've spent the last couple of days relaxing on the patio, visiting the beach, running and diving. Not a bad life really! Saturday, we decided to take a vacation from our vacation and drive to the southwest side of the island and stay a night or two. We piled into the car and made a couple of pit stops at some of the sights in Chamarel on the way to our weekend digs in Flic-En-Flac on the south west coast. Chamarel is nown for it's large waterfall and seven colored earth. We'd already been told not to expect much from the seven colored earth, but we had to see it anyways (we'd been to Rainbow Mountain and were on a multi-colored earth tour). Both sights were within a National Reserve. The drive was up through some elevation, so naturally, Isa was car sick haha. We saw monkeys on way to the park as well. The waterfall was lovely, but we were at quite a distance. The seven colored earth was int...

Made it to Guayaquil, Ecuador! The first stamp in the boys' passports. They were great on the flight from Fort Lauderdale.  Arch slept most of it and Van flirted with all of the spanish women. Yesterday we hiked up to Faro Cerro Santa Anna. It's one of the oldest areas of Guayaquil having survived a fire in the 1800s that wiped out most of the original city. It also was home to a castle which guarded the city against pirate attacks, which is now commemorated by a pirate themed bar. We had a great 360 view of the city. Now for the most important part....dinner. we ate at Picanteria la culata. It was delicious. We shared a shrimp civiche. Mom got rice with shrimp and I had fish in garlic sauce with smashed fried plantains. Luke had the same but whithout the garlic sauce. It was accompanied by some of the most stellar hot sauce known to man. Now were off to the coast!