Cuando tengas ganas, solo hazlo!

This is a conjunctive effort from Hildsup and Luces’up

While Hilde goes outside… I can just say that we have eaten too much bread with too much flour in it.

Thursday: We went to Papallacta! Papallacta is tucked in between two huge mountains where we knew pools of hot springs awaited us. We left Tumbaco (Luci´s home) after helping Christian (Luci’s brother) with an essay on “shame”… go ahead, try and think about an essay where the theme is just shame, the minimum word requirement is 5000 words and your professor says you can write just 5 paragraphs … and on top of that, you only have 3 hours to finish it. Anyways… we dressed up as we all always do; pumped up the tunes and navigated for an hour or so through mountains and the biggest forest of “árboles de papel” (they are gorgeous). We arrived to Papallacta around 5.00 and we submerged ourselves in the steaming hot boiling ouiiiii waters that come from Antizana volcano. We spent two hours in the hot springs singing (we taught each others’ songs like “Santeria” and the famous reggeaton song “ Atrévete te te te”). We stretched out in the pools and watched the sunset ha ha ha how romantic! We switched from a hot pool to another hot pool and then to the river and then to the other hot pool and finally to the freezing cold cold pool to wake us up for the trip home. On the way back, we stopped several times and turned off the car lights to admire a place where artificial lights don’t mask nature’s beauty and the stars light up the pitch black night. What a night! Luci was running on 1.5 hours of sleep so we came back and passed out.

Saturday: We decided to make “Colada Morada” and “guaguas de pan”. This is a yearly Ecuadorian tradition for the “día de los muertos” where indigenous people bring these delicacies to the graves of their dead death loved ones family members (we had an argue on how to say this). Well, we said we were going to meet up at four in Luci’s house. Hilde should have remembered the first conversation we had when she arrived: “You can take any bus BUT the one that says “LUMBISI” on it”. Well, she took it. Two hours later than we had planned, we met up. She loved the cows and the crazy drunk people on the two hour bus ride that brought her back to where she started. Bien, we bought: moras, mortiños, ishpingo, fresas, harina… y … just in case Nori for sushi. When we finally arrived at Luci’s house we inflated the swimming pool and met up with her two friends.

As the pool filled with water, we prepared our meal. Lu was in charge of the Colada and Hilde prepped the dough for the bread. It was a very interesting process that ended with us adding pounds of sugar to the colada to savor the taste and pounds of flour to the bread so that it would keep its form. Somos unas carishinas (really really bad at cooking).

At around midnight we finished cooking, put on bikinis, grabbed mugs of colada morada and the extra herbs (to infuse in the pool) and relaxed in the inflatable jacuzzi – pool.

Today we have indulged in too much colada morada and guaguas de pan, we want to puke or rather … share this food with all of you, our wonderful friends. We always think of you and wish you could all be here swimming in the inflatable pool with us YAY!

LES QUEREMOS MUCHO!!!!!!!!h/&%//)(/%”#!wr

If anyone wants to come to the beach (two weeks traveling the "ruta del sol") with us in May for Luci's graduation the offer is there...please!!!! Lets do it!

More stories to come,

Hilde y Lucia.