Be careful what you wish for........

i think my last email was from banos the pretty mountain town.........well after 10 days of wearing a sweater at night and chilly mornings, never mind in bogota one morning i saw my breathe in the shower............. all i wished for is warm suny beach weather.(it was cold cuz of the altitude of the mountains in all the town we were in.....................anyways we are now sweating our salchicha´s off and my back and forehead and totally burning never mind the skin flakes that fall off me constantly i am peeling like crazy wow is it hot here...............................almost too hot mid 30´s deg cel i´d think from that town we took a night bus and sure enough carnival was final night so we got sprayed with foam as we walked........oh did i include our waterfall tour? final day there took this waterfall tour.......................................it was very pretty and we went in this open sided painted up bus laura n i were the only tourists not from equador(as town was packed for carnival remember?) anyways our english spoken tour we paid for was totaly spanish only......................and some idiota(that is spanish for idiot!) had a can of foan and as we went through each tunel it was pitch black and u could hear the sound of foam spraying and laura n i and everyone in the same path could feel foam sprayed to back of our necks, ears heads ect. oh well it was good fun although prob toxic no doubt oh well maybe i´ll hear laura giving me orders better if i grow a third ear! saw some really pretty waterfalls and deep gorges/valleys, the road was packed and crazy driver but it was okay. we took a cable car across a gorge over a river was very pretty scenery. got back to town then quickly got out of bus, as was traffic jam, and walked rest of way to hotel, laura n i got hit by a water balloon from someone in house who opened window threw it then cowardly closed window again....oh well we grabbed our bags walked to bus depot sprayed again with foam then had overnight bus that was oversold and huge ordeal to figure out who had legitimate tickets and who had to stand in the aisle............................................traffic was crazy specially on mountain roads. finally got next morning after 2 or 3 busses????????????????????? to beach town.....................was impossible to find a room passed many people sleeping in cars and it was 7:30 ish am yet loads of people drinkign my favorite .80 big beers unsure if it was there breakfast or they hadn´t gone to bed yet..........................musta been a party the night before(final night of carnival) wish we were there...................oh well finally got a room, beach was totaly overpacked... surfer beach. Had an awesome hamburguesa(that is hamburger in spanish..haha) for supper, next day hopped bus to get away from crowds to lil beach towm 5 kms away amazng, the entire beach was empty except for maybe 4-6 people so it was very nice.........................got the swetest watermelon from street vendor and laura got a shake from this restaurant that totally smelt like gas and the cook was pouring gas from a big container into littler ones spilling 1/2 of it on flor....................think laura was worried about those gasssy hands making her shake but laura is still alive so couldn´t been too bad! took bus back past our town to a different beach town 10 mins past on other side..............lovely a few locals n tourists on beach but basically empty i had a gift from god there........as i´ve been ordering the almuerzo´s or lunch of the day cheap comes with soup,meat(or a fish) rice,salad, and fruit juice usually 1.75 - 2.50 full meal anyways it was shrimp soup and shrimp or fish cooked how u like(fried,breaded,grilled) plus limonada(that is................well y´know) it was awesome althought i first had a big beer then our waiter snoozed in a hammock for a while...................then i waved to get his attention he took order of next table then ran into town, returning with a plastic bag(no doubt needed supplies) then he nodded again only to go to the shack and help his wife cook the next tables lunch....................at first i wondered how long we could sit in the shade of thier tables after ordring only 1 beer then i couldn´t order food if i wanted.............................pretty low pressure place to eat at............................too low presure could starve to death at such a place. anyways shrimp soup n breaded shrimp was great.................nice lazy day then saw this guy on motorcycle selling doughnuts n cookies from it so laura n i bought some and ate them while we watched this playful lil parot on a table outside store as we watited for bus back.
Next day raining crazy heavy rain but we had to move on...................walked through the muck to highway waited 25 mins for bus then a taxi offered us n another couple ride to our destination 1 hour away for 16.00 well with my broken spanish was able to get him down to 14.00 7.00 per couple so we hopped in crammed but out of the rain in this town
we got here no rain by then found nice hotel 7.00 per person i convinced owner 6.00 was more fair and we both smiled(me more so as i can speak a bit of spanish plus saved a dollar which can be invested in a ..............u got it big beer on the beach! walked round that afernoon lazy lil fishing pueblo of puerto lopez Had awesome mixed seafood with garlic for supper town had no power all day so i couldnt find cold beer then from heaven above was 1 place with ice cold beer in a freezer....................oh they were lovley.................lovley as my laura that is!´

today went to toruisty american owned cafe laura was hapy for pancakes , as she is sick of the same rice n french fries over n over and i had a fish sandwich it was delicious then we went on this tour by boat to salango island was to be 25.00 per person but the guy already had to people so with my limited spanish and hands i explained how it should be waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay cheaper for ole laura n i then as boat was already paid for............he laughed tapped the side of his temple.................i think he meant i was quite crafty................................and agreed to 15.00 per person.........tour was awesome started out we say turtles swimming in sea before we eaven left the beach area....................then we fished, i cut my finger a bit trying to snag a fish(first my throat in a shaving accident now my finger fishing this trip is takin toll on my ole body.and i´m not even back to colombia yet.where laura won´t be there to keep me in line!) We snorkeled and first i wasn´t used to the breathing and i think was hyperventalating Laura was worried i was gonna drown me too actualy a bit..........finally got hang of the breathing.........................saw loads of fish all kinds of colours and corals on rocks... i saw the owner of tour boat was looking out for our safety watching from boat ready to rescue us in case of troubles...................hsi name was winston churchill.........so he went by a true character.........anyways about 15 mins lator i felt tug on my leg and here it was winston snorkeling beside me.................but who would man the boat for rescue or watch out we were all right and safe..................guess he wasn´t watchin after all after that we ate ceviche(raw fish w/oinions, lime juice,salt,tomatoe, green pepper.........................then it sat on the boat about 2 hours uncovered sometimes in the shade sometimes in the full sun............ and we all ate it neither laura nor i have shit ourselfes yet that was 9 hours ago so it musta been okay! Tasty actualy then came back to beach after some fruit was nice tour i tipped the crew and winston churchil himself all big beers(total of 3 beers including 1 for me....haha) n they were happy after that we found out no power in town today neither..............but luckily i could hear generator running and one lil beach shack had a fridge running n big beers in the freezer section..............ended the day with an ice cold big beer and grape flavoured cigar..............how sweet is that............to watch the sunset with laura with me we went to hotel lady there gave us bucket of water to flush tiolet wth and for supper i had mixed seafood w/pasta and poor laura was adventurous and ordered fish in peanut sauce but it was truly shitty she couldn´t eat it al so i finished it for her..................now sweatin our salchichas off agin in an internet cafe at nearly 10:00 pm tomorro off to new town unsure where yet gotta look in our travel book.......don´t worry bout me mom.......laura´s takin good care of me and keeping me out of trouble!