...because they exist in ecuador, too! but in quito, they're called empanadas de viento (or just empanadas de queso if they're the regular small ones) and people put sugar on them sometimes...but the cheese doesn't taste as good, which really makes them not as awesome as the ones in the amaaaazing imperial valley (see my el centro blog ~ september 2009)...even so, we ate one or eight, because we're fatty...
more importantly, we were in quito
especially when i entered the area of old town called la ronda...
until, finally, i looked like i'd gone through a car wash...
mike only got a little...
i think people were intimidated by his tall whiteness. he kind of looked like the man...but we weren't the only ones who got shampooed...here are some sudsy ecuadorians in la ronda...
on a calmer note, we took a day trip to some thermal baths in a mountain village called papallacta. it hurts my heart to say what i’m about to say, but i have to admit…the baths there were better than the ones in
and now i'm just going to insert some quito pictures here, because i'm tired and lazy and tired...this is the plaza grande, the main square...
and here's a busy street in the old town...
next is plaza san francisco where we bought our first ice cream from those two under the umbrella...(quito produces goood ice cream)...and where i first tasted chocolate con queso at a cafe on the distant right...
and this is where we bought juice on the street from the most adoraffle girl ever...
here is a shot of the hill called el panecillo (the little bread loaf) with the famous winged virgin of quito...
we took a bootleg taxi to the top of el panecillo where i got this shot of the city...
and then we finished off our trip in la ronda just before heading to el aeropuerto...but this time without all the suds..carnival was over...
