My amazing day

Ahhhh... What a great day!
Well first... last night we went to la Mariscal again with some friends and this time the discotech we went to was 10X more fun than the last... first we went to a bar called coffee tree and sat outside and then moved on to a discotech called Bungalow. It was very fun and the music was a lot better. We danced for about 6 hours... haha.
Thismorning, my two friends and i went to Otavalo, a small town famous for it's saturday morning market. It's about 2 1/2 hours away by bus, for $2 each way! On the way there we met a grandfather and his grandaughter and he told us he'd show us to the market and introduce us to his daughter who was 19 and a student at a different university in Quito. So when we got to the town, he introduced us to his whole family, like 7 people, and the custom in ecuador is to kiss people on the cheek when you say hello or goodbye to them, so it was a lot of that.. haha. Anyways, we said goodbye, but Tatiana, his daughter accompanied us all day! It was great! The market was huge and absolutely beautiful and it was great practice for our spanish! I bought a really cute sweater, a bracelet, and a necklace all for $15... it definitely helped to have Tatiana there to barter. I definitely want to go back to Otavalo, because they had a lot of amazing things i still want to buy.
THIS IS THE BEST PART! We were walking through the market and suddenly there was all this commotion and we were running through tents to a big crowd... what for?? The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa was at the market standing 5 feet in front of us! He said, "hola chicas" to us!!! hahaha, it was pretty amazing! My friend anna has a picture of him, which I will obtain later to put up.

Later, our group, without the president, unfortunately... had lunch. It was really fun and we are definitely going to hang out with our new friend Tatiana again someday.
The bus ride home was quite interesting...it took a lot longer than we thought it was going too... and we really had no idea what we were doing... but we survived.. and literally the cutest baby ever was on the bus, so that was fun!
Any way, today was a great day... I'll keep you all updated!
Miss you all!