Saturday Part One

I was required to get up at 4:30 in the morning in order to make the 5:15 cab ($5.00) to get to the bus station by 6:15.  We had planned a trip to Baños, a small town about three and a half hours away from Quito, and we wanted to get there early.  We somehow managed to get bus tickets for al twelve of us for $3.50 each, and we someone found an unmarked bus at the wrong terminal that worked.  Or something.  I’m not really sure.  But, whatever the case, we definitely had a full coach bus to ourselves for a while and it was great.  Also, the bus had a bathroom.  I mention this because many people in our group needed to pee, mostly because you had to pay to use the bus station bathroom, but it’s a tricky thing to do when the bus is moving.  When Je was in the bathroom, I do believe we hit the largest bump of the trip.  We all hear CRASH “FUCK!” and some more undetermined words.  We were all already laughing when Joe, attempting to leave the bathroom, experienced the second largest bump of the trip.  Poor boy.  He caught himself a little on Bobby’s seat and threw up a little bit on his stuff.  I’m sure we all would have been polite enough to be concerned how hard he’d hit his head it we all weren’t already dyeing of laughter.  Except for Bobby.  He didn’t see the funny.   When we got to the city, we had a bit of trouble finding our hotel, but, when we did, we were quite happy.  See, the thing is that were are poor college students trying to make this happen as cheaply as possible.  We found a room that would be $9.00 each for the night.  We weren’t expecting to be pleased.  However, the Santa Clara was actually really cute and nice.  We were all quite happy.  Total spent so far: $17.50