Finally Shorts!

From Guest Blogger, Rebecca:

We arrived in Canoa on Tuesday, after a blissfully hassle-free trip from Quito. Rather than opt for the 12-hour overnight bus ride to paradise, we hopped on a 30-minute flight from Quito to the coast. All flights should be so short. It´s not that this country is so big, but that the roads are generally pretty poor and there are mountains bisecting it, making road travel unbelievably time consuming. With 2 kids, our days of roughing it on day-long buses is sort of out of the picture.

The weather here is perfect and I am thrilled to put on shorts for the first time this whole summer! We´re staying at a really cool beach-side hotel. The common areas are sand and the kids love playing there. It´s a new and small place, so very homey. There´s no restaurant, but this morning the manager of the place bought $8 worth of lobsters (about 8 of them!) and will cook them up for us for dinner!

Though it´s summer high season in Ecuador right now, Canoa is relatively quiet. The waves are supposedly good for surfing, so there are quite a few surfers around and a handful of travelers, but nothing like what a US beach looks like on any summer weekend. It´s nice and tranquilo.

I´m trying to post some pictures, but this connection is pretty poor and it´s not cooperating. I´ll try again later and leave the longer descriptions to Paul. I think he plans to visit the internet cafe one of these evenings when I´m getting the kids to sleep.