Initially, we travel to lose ourselves; next, we travel to find ourselves. : Baños

Hey all!

So I've been falling behind on keeping up with my blog. A couple weeks ago some friends and I all went to Baños. It's about a three hour bus ride from Quito. We got there Friday afternoon, got two rooms at a fantastic hostel (by fantastic I mean it had hot running water and toliet paper). There were about ten of us total. We got some delicious food at this restaurant as soon as we got there, and ended up going there two more times throughout our stay as well. That night we went out and had a great time. The next morning, Saturday, we were all planning on going white water rafting; however, I got a little sick, so I stayed home. Sunday morning I was feeling a lot better and we all went puenting. Puenting is similar to bungee jumping but instead of bouncing, you jump off a bridge and the rope is actually attached to the other side of the bridge, so you swing back and forth under the bridge until they let you down. It was amazing. I kind of felt nauseous afterward, but I think that was because I had already been sick earlier that weekend. I wanted to do it again though. It only cost twenty bucks. Baños is crazy. Really. Ecuadorians have some sick fetish for adrenaline. I want to go again.