Guayasamín
I have been in Quito since Wednesday, and I haven´t done all that much. I´ve mostly been hanging out here in Mariscal Sucre (aka center of the gringo universe). After writing my last blog entry on Wednesday, I went and had lunch. My stomach wasn´t feeling super well, but for some reason I still decided to eat a set lunch at a small local place: spicy cheese soup followed by breaded and pan fried calves liver (like milanesa or schnitzel but with liver), salad and rice, and tree tomato juice (which I don´t like). In the end the meal wasn´t too bad, and I actually felt better after eating that. Go figure.
I met up with Tamie in the afternoon on Wednesday, did lots of errands with her, then eventually had dinner at a fondue restaurant which was delicious. We stayed at Crossroads Hostal right in the heart of gringolandia, which was kinda noisy. Tamie didn´t mind though since she never actually slept. She had a very early flight and ended up leaving the hostal at 2:30 AM to go to her friends house, and then to the airport. On Thursday I decided to switch hostals, and now I´m at a place called Loro Verde which is pretty good and on a quieter street.
On Thursday I hung around most of the day doing not all that much, then decided to go to the movies in the evening. There wasn´t much good playing that I hadn´t seen, so I decided to see Crash again. I don´t think it was as good the second time, but still pretty powerful. It was hard to tell how the Ecuadorans reacted to it...I feel like many people might have missed some stuff...lost in translation perhaps.
This morning, while eating breakfast at the Magic Bean (Super gringolandia), I ran into Jamie, who I met in the jungle back in February. She and her friend Liz are in Quito for a few days, so in the late morning we headed to La Capilla del Hombre and the Fundación Guayasamín in the northern part of Quito.
I had been to both of these museums before, but I wanted to go again. The Capilla del Hombre is a really cool museum, planned by Guayasamín before he died in 1999 and dedicated to humankind. A really cool place, where we had a very nice (free) tour. I even got to take pictures (without flash).
´
After the museum I had lunch at a nice place overlooking the city, then we headed back to Mariscal where we ran into a Swiss girl who I had met twice before (at Black Sheep Inn and then again in Tena). We went to a cafe called Xocoa which has really good chocolate desserts and drinks. I had an iced chocolate which was amazing...the three girls left this afternoon to go see The Da Vinci Code, which came out here today. I am killing time right now, heading to the airport in an hour to pick up Mike! Hooray.
That´s about all for now, I´ll be back in the USA 3 weeks from today!
I met up with Tamie in the afternoon on Wednesday, did lots of errands with her, then eventually had dinner at a fondue restaurant which was delicious. We stayed at Crossroads Hostal right in the heart of gringolandia, which was kinda noisy. Tamie didn´t mind though since she never actually slept. She had a very early flight and ended up leaving the hostal at 2:30 AM to go to her friends house, and then to the airport. On Thursday I decided to switch hostals, and now I´m at a place called Loro Verde which is pretty good and on a quieter street.
On Thursday I hung around most of the day doing not all that much, then decided to go to the movies in the evening. There wasn´t much good playing that I hadn´t seen, so I decided to see Crash again. I don´t think it was as good the second time, but still pretty powerful. It was hard to tell how the Ecuadorans reacted to it...I feel like many people might have missed some stuff...lost in translation perhaps.
This morning, while eating breakfast at the Magic Bean (Super gringolandia), I ran into Jamie, who I met in the jungle back in February. She and her friend Liz are in Quito for a few days, so in the late morning we headed to La Capilla del Hombre and the Fundación Guayasamín in the northern part of Quito.
I had been to both of these museums before, but I wanted to go again. The Capilla del Hombre is a really cool museum, planned by Guayasamín before he died in 1999 and dedicated to humankind. A really cool place, where we had a very nice (free) tour. I even got to take pictures (without flash).
´
After the museum I had lunch at a nice place overlooking the city, then we headed back to Mariscal where we ran into a Swiss girl who I had met twice before (at Black Sheep Inn and then again in Tena). We went to a cafe called Xocoa which has really good chocolate desserts and drinks. I had an iced chocolate which was amazing...the three girls left this afternoon to go see The Da Vinci Code, which came out here today. I am killing time right now, heading to the airport in an hour to pick up Mike! Hooray.
That´s about all for now, I´ll be back in the USA 3 weeks from today!
posted by DMP @ 3:27 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home