Yoni goes to Mindo

OK- here is the regretful but honest truth: Quito, especialy south Quito, overcrowded, smoggy, lacks greenery, and is, altogether, a kind of gross place. So this weekend, Yoni, Hanne, and the other volunteers desided to go to Mindo, a nice town in a beutiful tropical forest about a 2 hour bus ride from quito. In truth Mindo is a total tourist trap (main street=resturaunts and travel agencies), but it was nice, anyway.

While the origional plan was for Yoni to go up saturday and Hanne to come sunday (she had somthing to do on Sat.), Hanne got sick and never came (this is forshadowing for posts to come...).

Mindo

The first day in Mindo, I (Yoni) when zip linning. For those who don´t know, this is were they strap you to a weel-y-thing and send you on a cable streched between to sides of a vally, so that you are hanging 300ft in the air admiring the veiw. It is amazingly fun. There are pictures, but I need to get them from the others volunteers.

The "Other Volunteers" go as follows: Katie, a 22 year old resent UW grad (what a coincidence); Daniel, a 29 year old Brittish Woman; and Joe, a 62 year old Irish man. Katie and Joe are featured in the picure below.

That night, Mindo was apparently having their anual party, and so the whole town got a little drunk and had a very large dance party. After tasting a beer, I desided that drinking was not for me (Daniel has a picture of the discusted look on my face), and so the party passed for me as a bit borring.

Sunday, Katie and I went intertubing in the morning, and in the afternoon, I when mountain biking to a waterfall while everyone else tried to go horse back riding, only to find out there were no horses.