So if you received a thank you from us...or perhaps just obtained one of our little cards, it had our address on it for the states and for here in Quito. WELL I found out the address we were given had a couple numbers missing. Therefore, if you're interested in our address here in Ecuador...feel free to email me or post a comment and I'll email it to you!
We're still in the process of putting together our apartment, I will post pictures soon though (=
Friday, August 27, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Getting to Ecuador
It started at 5:30 in the morning when my wonderful father drove us to JFK. We dragged in our huge hoard of luggage complete with four large suitcases, two carry-on suitcases, a backpack and a laptop bag. We were worried that all of our suitcases would be overweight...three were, but the woman checking us in only charged us for two!
We flew LAN airlines to Guayaquil which is a city on the coast. It was a six hour flight and it was overall a smooth trip. I was impressed with the airlines entertainment system which always helps a long trip go faster. It had touchscreen “tvs” and a large selection of movies, music, and games. I watched Iron Man 2 and Shrek 4 (=
As I get older, I have noticed how my feeling towards flying has become less and less positive. I'm just not a fan. I'm sure you know the feeling when a plane starts to descend. You have some moments of feeling like you are falling, sort of like dips in the air. As we began our descent and experienced those brief dips, I noticed that many of the passengers were making “ooo” or “eee” noises during those times. Almost as if we were on a roller coaster ride and everyone screams when you go down the big hill. Well there were no screams, but I have to admit, it didn't make me feel very comfortable. Finally when we landed everyone cheered and clapped. This part was amusing and I identified with that cheering..which seemed to be a way of expressing a sigh of relief.
Now that we were in Ecuador, we needed to go through immigration and customs even though we would be continuing on to Quito. I realized that we had never traveled with so much luggage before and it was the biggest pain ever. We managed to make it through and find where domestic flights departed and we sat there for about 4 hours. By this time I was ready for bed and that made me miss home.
Again with no complications we boarded our flight to Quito which was only 32 minutes flight time and we arrived. Once we got there, we had one piece of luggage missing. Thankfully it was already in the airline office (blessing!) and so we were able to bring all our suitcases with us to our apartment.
We were greeted by a couple who also works at the school. They had bought some food and set it up in the kitchen which was really sweet.
Yesterday we settled in, unpacked our belongings, and went to the grocery store. I'll post pictures and write more about our apartment soon.
p.s. In attempting to revamp my blog, I was hit with major complications. Last week I spent many hours trying to rearrange things and there were a couple things that just didn't work out. Thus, if anything seems out of place...sorry, I'm still trying to figure it out!
We flew LAN airlines to Guayaquil which is a city on the coast. It was a six hour flight and it was overall a smooth trip. I was impressed with the airlines entertainment system which always helps a long trip go faster. It had touchscreen “tvs” and a large selection of movies, music, and games. I watched Iron Man 2 and Shrek 4 (=
As I get older, I have noticed how my feeling towards flying has become less and less positive. I'm just not a fan. I'm sure you know the feeling when a plane starts to descend. You have some moments of feeling like you are falling, sort of like dips in the air. As we began our descent and experienced those brief dips, I noticed that many of the passengers were making “ooo” or “eee” noises during those times. Almost as if we were on a roller coaster ride and everyone screams when you go down the big hill. Well there were no screams, but I have to admit, it didn't make me feel very comfortable. Finally when we landed everyone cheered and clapped. This part was amusing and I identified with that cheering..which seemed to be a way of expressing a sigh of relief.
Now that we were in Ecuador, we needed to go through immigration and customs even though we would be continuing on to Quito. I realized that we had never traveled with so much luggage before and it was the biggest pain ever. We managed to make it through and find where domestic flights departed and we sat there for about 4 hours. By this time I was ready for bed and that made me miss home.
Again with no complications we boarded our flight to Quito which was only 32 minutes flight time and we arrived. Once we got there, we had one piece of luggage missing. Thankfully it was already in the airline office (blessing!) and so we were able to bring all our suitcases with us to our apartment.
We were greeted by a couple who also works at the school. They had bought some food and set it up in the kitchen which was really sweet.
Yesterday we settled in, unpacked our belongings, and went to the grocery store. I'll post pictures and write more about our apartment soon.
p.s. In attempting to revamp my blog, I was hit with major complications. Last week I spent many hours trying to rearrange things and there were a couple things that just didn't work out. Thus, if anything seems out of place...sorry, I'm still trying to figure it out!
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