Ask and you shall receive

This place is great! Where else can you lie on the beach and purchase brownies, carrot cake, cookies, empanadas, calzones, snow cones, ceviche or drinks? So we were on the beach today and it was around 3pm so we had not eaten in quite a few hours. This woman comes by with carrot cake and cookies! So, maybe eating cake and cookies goes against the "do what you can to look thin in a swimming suit" idea, but how can you resist homemade cake and cookies when you are famished?? You can get everything you can ever want just sitting on the beach. No need to go anywhere, it comes to you!

Also today, one of the most amazing things happened to us. So, here we are in this beautiful beach town with a fun night life but all we want to do is eat dinner, go to our room, hang out in the a/c, watch movies and go to bed early. Today, we were watching Erin Brockavich and wishing that it was in English instead of Spanish. So I started playing with the remote to try to get the English subtitles on, when lo and behold, I find the "idioma seleccion" and can change the language to English!! O Happy Day! We are bummed that it took us 4 days to figure this out! We only have 2 days to enjoy this momentous feat.

We only have one more day of sun worshipping so tomorrow will be a full beach day. We have to figure out our bus to Guayaquil for Friday morning and just hang out the rest of the day. We will drink as many fruit smoothies as possible and probably eat some more cake on the beach. We are bummed that our favorite fish taco restaurant is only open on the weekends. Our largest decisions these days are which restaurant should we eat breakfast in and which restaurant should we eat dinner in. I know, tough life. But this is what vacation is about. Every day I get more emails from future volunteers so I know that as soon as I get back to Ollanta, my role as health volunteer coordinator will be a full-time gig. Not to mention working in the clinics and trying to organize the epidemiology stats and public health programs that I see as a necessity. I will definitely enjoy my last few days of vacation!