-Sold most of our belongings. We still need to sell baking trays, cutting boards,
-Gone to the jungle. We spent four days in the Amazon. THE. AMAZON. It was pretty great! They had had a lot of rain lately so everything was luscious and green. We saw lots of birds, some snakes, lots of bugs, lots of monkeys, some caimans, spiders, and more. We went to a native community and made yuca bread. We saw a shaman. We spent a lot of time riding around in boats.
-Climbed Cotopaxi. Well we didn't actually summit but we got pretty darn close. The way was impassable. Well, probably not impassable but there was a high chance you would die doing it, so we decided not to. It was the hardest thing I've ever done. The half marathon didn't even compare and I don't think the full marathon will either. This mountain is famous because it's a perfect cone and we basically just chose a side and climbed up the cone. UP. Straight UP. We spent the night in the refuge, not sleeping, so we were exhausted from the start. After about an hour and a half I didn't think I could go anymore. 4 hours later we sat and watched the sun rise just below the summit. We had to get going before the sun was completely up because there was a fear that the sun might melt some of the passes we had crazily gone over. It was crazy and if I hadn't been so tired and it hadn't been so dark I probably would have said I wasn't going to keep going. But I did and I'm impressed no one got hurt. With all of that said, it was SO fun and there's a chance I might even try it again.
-Celebrated a birthday. Well, actually we're celebrating it today. Ryan turns the big 25 today! We'll be celebrating by packing up and heading out on a week long trek across Ecuador, to the south first and then to the beach.
We probably won't write while we're gone. Check facebook for photos. I'll upload some to the blog once were home, but that will be a while.
MULUB,
Taylor
