2/3 of the Team Arrives

Hello from Quito Ecuador!

As Michael indicated Travis and I made it through security, connecting flights, customs, and a ride to the hostel with no problems at all. All of our luggage arrived with us as well. God is good! Michael should be showing up at the hostel any minute now. The first thing we found out after arriving at the hostel is that we really need to work on our Spanish. Some of the people that we have been talking too speak broken english just as we speak broken spanish. So far we have been able to check in at the hostel and get some really good dinner with out to much confusion. Travis knows some popular words and phrases for travelers, but the people here speak so fast that we have a hard time picking out the words we know. Even writing this post is challenging. The letters are in their normal place on the keyboard but all the symbols are located in different places and there are spanish letters such as ñ. Travis and I still haven't found out where the @ key is (I had to copy it from google) to sign into emails and our blog.

Travis and myself went on a short walk around the hostel to find food and found out how nice we have it in Bozeman. The streets and side walks are all very run down here and even the nice tourist hotel, the Marriot, is pretty old and in need of repairs. Another very different thing is all of the private armed gaurds that are posted at the nicer restaurants and shopping centers.

I tried sending SPOTs from the airports but apparently none of them made it out from the windows I was sitting next to. I will go outside (in the rain) in little bit and send one off from the hostel we will be staying at for the next three days. Thank you all very much for the many prayers for our saftey while travelling.

Untill next time.
Jeremy