Continental breakfast

Well we got up bright and early, at the break of dawn. We woke up nice and early at 6:30 and started the day with showers and breakfast. We had been lured into the continental breakfast by looking at the enticing pictures on the website for our hostal. As we excitedly (and tiredly) ran downstairs, we were surprised to find two kinds of flake cereal, 1 tub of yogurt, bread, fake orange juice, powdered milk, and not-so-great coffee. Anyway, as Lauren ate her “fish” flakes, I determined to make things better by asking her how her scrambled eggs and ham were with her freshly ground coffee, accompanied by freshly squeezed orange juice. We carried on in this fashion until we were laughing quite hysterically at our rather pitiful breakfast. Let’s just say that Lauren was none to happy with me for making her wake up at 6:30 in the morning for “fish” flakes.
On we went with our tour guide of the day, Juan Manuel, who I believe was previously a body guard. How exciting. First thing on our list for the day was Barranca Oblatos. We took 2 buses and walked a while till we stood on the very top of this mountain. From there, we could see a beautiful view of all the mountains around and the plants, flowers, and rocks below. At the top, there were a couple of small stands with people selling things. Naturally, Lauren and I wanted to see what they were. When we saw the sign: “Coconuts: 30 pesos,” naturally, we (being Americans) did not realize that this meant the WHOLE coconut. So basically, we ended up with far more coconut and coconut juice than we really wanted. But can I just say, coconut with chile y limon is absolutely totally and completely out of this world. Delicious!
From there, we went down the mountain and after an hour of traveling down the mountain, we decided to hike back up it. Needless to say it was a little bit harder and took just a little bit longer than the way down. Beautiful scenery though. It was absolutely gorgeous! After our 3 hour hike, we were exhausted and ready to go back.
Once we got to our hotel room, we decided to go on a little adventure to find lunch and go to the center (shopping of course!). By the end of the day, we were totally and completely exhausted from our long wonderful day.
3/30/10