La chiva, the trucks that drive around the city with a band on top

My babies! Pollitos, Taco and Chevere

The Crew that went to Quito, Neda, Justin, Floor and me

Francisco, Floor, Neda, Justin

Baños skyline

the crew

me and the boys, Alex and Marco

The Dizz and I in Montañita, mucièlagos

Baños, Tunguahua Volcano

Neda

Carlos and Martín the monkey

Floor and the Martín

Neda with her piraña

eye of the piraña

Well, after 4 days in the Amazon Jungle, I can honestly say that my threshold for steroid-induced insects has grown substantiously.  You know the insect is HUGE when the sound of its wings wakes you up from a dead sleep.  I swear I thought it was a bat at first in my room, but no just your average jungle moth, BIGGER THAN MY HEAD!

Oh, another fun little tidbit.  When you see a spider as big as your hand, you know just a poisonous wood spider, and you ask your landlord to please remove this creature from your vacinity and instead, by accident, he chases it THROUGH the window and INTO your room.  Thank you for your help.

After these, I barely look twice at the cockroaches climbing the walls of my safari princess lodge.  How can I complain?  I’m in the Amazon and paying 50 bucks a day to see such wildlife.

But tonight I head back to real life, jobs and worries and drama.  But also family, friends who love me and a bedroom with walls and doors and no holes in the roof.  As soon as my computer is fixed, I will post up tonnes and tonnes of pictures of gorgeous wildlife and fauna of the Amazon.  And of me, because I’m important.

according to the facebook caption, i am ” having problems with marco’s overtly gringo behavior.

and i have no idea what is going on this photo, it just made me laugh.