Baños

Today was a great day! Started a little sad, with goodbyes to Juan and Sarah D. They are heading back to the states. Gabe (American volunteer here in Ecuador) and his friend Laura (from Cuba) joined us on our adventure to Baños. We checked out the ¨baths¨ - they were really more like public pools that are fed with the warm water that comes down from the volcano. We had a nice lunch. Then we split up for a while. One group stayed in the main city -shopping and exploring. The rest of us took the van up the road about 20 minutes and hiked down to an incredible waterfall. It was very tropical, not far from the Amazon.
Just as we were leaving Baños the volcano began ¨belching¨. We got some great views and pictures. We also saw a beautiful rainbow. I will download the pictures tomorrow.

The drive back to Riobamba we were all a little over tired and silly. Playing a game of what would you rather be.... or .... They were coming up with some rather silly options, but it was a nice release for everyone to just laugh and giggle.

Nick arrives tomorrow. It will be a day of rest. Some of us are going to go with Martha, our host, to a Catholic mass... we still are not clear if it will be in Spanish or Latin.