Cosas

A lot has happened here in the past ten days. We went to both Ingapirca (Incan ruins) and Cajas (An amazing national park), I will try to post pictures soon. Both places were incredible, but Cajas was gorgeous. It is mountainous terrain filled with hundreds of small lakes. One of the girls in the group managed to find the only patch of quicksand in the whole park. We all snapped photos as she sank thigh deep into the mud.

Possibly the most interesting, yet least surprising part of the past few days is the fact that I went on a date with a very nice Cuencan girl named Adriana. We met at a birthday party, I later asked her to go to dinner and salsa dancing. She said yes, after asking her father for permission.

Thats such an interesting aspect of life, here. It never even occurred to me that she would have to ask her father, but of course she would. People live with their parents until they are 40. 

The date was kind of difficult with my fluency in spanish and her nearly flawless english. I thought it went okay at best, and did not really expect to hear from her again. On the contrary, round two is this Wednesday.

Maybe we'll hold hands, since thats like 3rd base here.