Guayaquil, Ecuador

We got packed up and headed to the airport for our 11:10am flight. The airport is only 3 minutes from town and once I got there, I realized how it could be so close. It was so small! I had lost some bullshit piece of paper that we had to buy on the way into the Galápagos (who knew you needed to keep it for the return flight?!?) so I had to buy another one. It was only $10 but I was so angry about it. Thank god it wasn't the $100 one!

The flight to Guayaquil was very quick and once we landed, we said goodbye to Brad and headed out to catch a taxi. I had researched some of the hostels in town and "Funky Monkey" seemed to be really close to the airport, bus terminal and a big mall so we headed there. Sadly they did not have any private rooms available but there were no other hostels close by so we decided to just stay in the dorms since we would only be there for a night. The hostel was ok although the people who were staying the were kind of strange so we left ASAP to check out the mall. Alyssa still needed a new jacket which were able to find at a large department store for pretty cheap. We also checked out the movie theatre and found out that they played movies in English with Spanish subtitles! We decided we would return later that evening to see a movie. We grabbed some quick sandwiches at Quiznos and headed into town in search of the bus terminal so that we could book our tickets for the following day. The terminal was a lot farther of a walk than we'd anticipated and the sun was going down by the time we reached it. Luckily they had space on the early morning bus for the following day so we purchased our tickets and took a cab back to the hostel.
We got some warmer clothes on since it had cooled down once the sun set and headed back to the mall. We had noticed them setting up tons of chairs during the day throughout the mall and we couldn't figure out what it was for but now the entire mall was filled with people playing a giant game of BINGO- it was absolutely crazy!

We saw the movie "Oblivion" with Matt Damon and Jodie Foster which wasn't amazing but was definitely action packed...and to be honest I didn't care as long as it was in English! Ironically, the movie had a lot of parts where the actors spoke Spanish and those parts would have English subtitles which the locals seemed to enjoy. After the movie, the mall was closing up so we headed back to get some sleep before our early morning bus ride. Since we were sleeping in dorms, Alyssa and I were sharing a bunk bed and I think I about drove her nuts with my fidgeting since it shakes the entire set of beds. I think in the future we need to steer clear of bunk beds, lol.

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