Cancelled Flight

Day 12:

We woke up early this morning at 4:30 am so we could catch our 7:30 morning flight. We found out on the Internet that all flights were cancelled. What. We went to the airport and sure enough all flights were cancelled leaving Quito. Yesterday afternoon that an Airbus 340 had an accident while landing http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2007/11/10/3085262.htm Now we are stuck here until Monday. We headed back to the apartment and informed our friends of the news. Well, they had news too. They are leaving Ecuador tomorrow and we needed to find a place to stay.

We walked around town trying to find a hotel to stay at on Sunday evening. Most hotels were booked full because of the cancelled flights. We went on the Internet to look up some good hotels in Quito. One we really like is called Los Alpes. For sure we thought this place was going to be full too. We walked to the hostal and luckily they had room. Los Alpes is very beautiful. Extremely big with a German ski lodge feel. The hostal is very clean and the staff is extremely friendly. We love it. We got a 2 bedroom suite for $60. Score. After confirming our reservations at Los Alpes we headed to MegaMaxi super store.

The MegaMaxi is just like a Fred Meyer. Its huge. We bought a couple bottles of Pisco Liquor and chocolate to bring back home. Yum. There, we could not resist getting two scoops of ice cream from Baskin Robins for only a$1.

In the evening we celebrated our second farewell dinner with our friends at La Boca del Lobo restaurant. This was our second visit to the restaurant because they have great pisco sours. We had a great evening.