So the last couple days have been pretty sweet. On thursday, some of us decided that we needed to blow off some steam, so we went to a tequilla bar in the city. The combination of really cheap beer, high altitude, and the fact that we haven´t really drank in a while all combined to make the night really interesting. Lets just say the night ended really late (about 9pm) with us taking over a hole in the wall pizza joint and asking the owner to blast his brittany spears and backstreet boys compilation album while we had a dance party. Passers by were amused and or horrified. We got back to our town by, how else, riding in the back of a pickup.

Aparently the steam wasn´t fully blown off, because the next night we decided to hit up a kareokee bar in tabacundo... The OC of the cayambe region. That was pretty rediculous also, and ended with us hiking back along the highway and hoping a taxi would come...which it eventually did.

Yesterday, a group of us went to Otavalo, the biggest outdoor market in South America, to consume shit. Which we did. The crowning jewel in my back was a brightly colored, extra large hammock. I rigged that up last night, using a couple cow poop stained ropes to hang it from my rafters and read while jammin to some tunes.

Today, we were planning on going on a bad ass hike up to some mountain lakes, but the weather turned fowl so were going to stay in and try to find a place to watch the olympics. I also plan on learning how to make tortillas today. Given my propensity to eat tortillas and the fact that they´re hard to find here, this may be the thing i am most excited about all week.

Ohh yeah, I´m also learning some stuff, too. But the technical knowledge required to save the world is a bit tedious, really, so i haven´t been boring you with the details.

Also, i´ll try to put up some pictures soon...maybe, if i feel like it.

T minus 21 days untill i enter the jungle for good.