Estoy en Ecuador!

I'm here!!! Finally in Ecuador!!! After way too many hours of traveling yesterday, I got to Quito about 11:30pm. The adventure began about 5:50 when I left my house for the Appleton airport. I got on my flight to Detroit no problem. I was suppose to have about a 5 hour lay over in Detroit, so I found the nearest Starbucks, got a coffee and read Harry Potter. I was put on an early flight to Houston. Yeah, free lunch! (It was edible more or less) Then I had 4 hours in Houston. This time it was Harry Potter and ice cream and then later Harry Potter and a pretzel. My flight to Quito was delayed a bit, mechanical problems which of course they found after everyone had boarded the plane. More Harry Potter. We hit storms some where over the Gulf of Mexico. Lots of lightning, lots of turbulance. Harry Potter was finished by then. (I read quickly) I watch the inflight movie, Miss Congeniality 2. I would not recommend it. An hour or so later I was in Quito. Amazingly, my luggage was some of the first off the plane. After customs (a joke!) and verifying that my luggage was in fact my luggage, I met my host family and we went home.

My host family is great! They have three daughters all older than me and one dog. The dad is a professor at a different university here in Quito. The mom is a child psychiatrist. Patricia, the oldest daughter, is an architech. Veronica studies publicity and Gabi, the youngest and only one I haven't met, studies biology with an emphasis on entomology. I think we'll get along. And yes we do have a maid. Her name is Gloria and supposedly is a great cook.

More to come later... I'm tired (The altitude here just kills you the first couple days) and I want to go home and finish unpacking.