bruises,blisters and another almuerzo...

Another school day, getting up early, falling asleep while Mario drills spanish grammar into our cabezas...
and another almuerzo, those $1.50 lunch specials that are one of the biggest south american food gambles you can take. You may remember from my last post, "spanish class, salty snacks and a whole lotta walking", that my first almuerzo was quite the adventure. Today, the other S.A.ers and myself visited another small restaurant offering cheap eats and perhaps traveler's diarrhea (unfortunately the "baby place" from Monday was closed?) and ate soup, chicken, rice, mashed? potatoes and tang(the kool aide of Latin America.) Fun fact about Ecua soup-- it has chicken bones/cartilage/random parts of chicken anatomy in it. Skeeeetch, but tasty. Followed by rice with a little ahi- not too bad. This place can't hold a candle to moldy-paneling-cracked-glass-baby-tied-in-bouncy-chair-place... but it was still a ton of food for $1.50. I think between all seven of us we only found one hair and one little bug. Not too bad.

If that description isn't enough to turn your stomach, there's more. My feet have begun to rebel against me. From all of our walking I now have in total, 7 blisters between both. It's like stigmata of the feet. I was tempted to post pictures, but apparently that's gross? : ) Additionally, my killer bruise from zip lining is the nastiest, most unnatural, gray/green/purple I have ever seen.

Ecuador's still ballin' at about 70 and sunny- happy snow day, chicago!