Life's a Stitch

I find  it important to blog our adventures, but can’t keep up. Here I am posting about Guayaquil, Ecuador,  but since, we’ve been to California for the holidays and Bali to visit Bryant and Sammy. Have to do it while we can. I’m sure there’ll come a time where all posts are home based.

We’re off then, to:

It’s a thing, these colourful signs stating your location. Probably fueled by the likes of Instagram. We arrived in the late afternoon and checked into our hotel. This being a tour put together by Exoticca, you get the choice of two classes of room, charm and superior. As frugal travellers, we chose charm, which always seems to exceed our expectations. 

Not too shabby, with a river view.

Next on the agenda was a walking tour of the city. We were informed, due to political unrest, it would be mostly a bus tour and that the city had a curfew of 9:00pm. Always appreciate a heads up.

We visited the famous lizard park with a literal heads up. The large reptiles live in the trees above and express their disdain for people by excreting a stinky liquid onto the heads of careless passers under.

Looking forward to painting a portrait of that guy.

Our tour guide took us to the beautiful hilly old town district where we met the famous artist who painted her hat, Edgar Calderon.

During the second week of our tour, we were joined by sweet Maggie from the UK, the only Brit amongst a dozen Canadians. She fit in so well she deserved acknowledgment. For some reason, since I was observed painting, I was deemed creative and was voluntold to develop an honourary Canadian citizenship test for Maggie. I was pleased to do it and Chuck agreed to administer said exam.
Maggie passed her test and received her citizenship papers accompanied by a robust chorus of her new national anthem. 

Next stop: Lima, Peru