home safe no one was hurt!
more to come later!
so we experienced a tsunami evacuation!! That's a first...for me anyways. We were basically held captive in the highlands of the Galapagos island Isabella and went CRAZY. We were there for like 14 or more hours..and this farm was the looney farm...haha
We ended up being fed like royalty however along with the other huge group of gringos. The others were from Russia and Slovania...haha We ended up performing songs in english for them..haha they had no idea what we were saying but the old folks would just sit in there white plastic chairs bobbing their heads to the beat and clapping. It was quite hilarious.
There were a few little kids that we ran around with on the farm and beautiful horses out front. We went on small little walks throughout the day and slept. Than ate. Than slept some more. Our guide that took us to the volcano that morning for our planned hike wasn't surprised when the national park was closed and we weren't able to do the hike. I had actually been planning on going scuba diving that day, apart from the group. I had met up with the dive masters and got my wet suit and gear fitted. All I had to do was go in the morning at 8:15 to pay and dive!
I woke up the morning of the tsunami checked my phone and my friend had sent me a text about some 'terremotto de japon' and looked at it and fell back asleep. I woke up again about 7 o clock to my father from Cuenca Xavier calling with in extreme panic and explaining to me in mumbled and slurred spanish that there was a earthquake in Japan and there will be a Tsunami warning that will come and hit the Galapagos later in the afternoon..
Next thing I knew Esteban our coordinator informed me that I was not going scuba diving..haha
I was bummed.
We got the debriefing that we had to evacuate our hotel and pack a small bag, we may need to stay the night in the highlands. We left and couldn't go on our planned excursion so there we sat at the crazy farm. I will never forget that place..haha
We visited a camp site that is huge!! Lots of people had evacuated there. It was beautiful with tons of gringos and just local people as well. There were barbecue's and a soccer game. It was part of a little park with tortoises and amazing plant life.
anyways there's soo much to say ...but i took a milllllion pics
811 to be exact! the galapagos was beautiful....
I'm off to start some homework for my new world lit class and my continued spanish part 2 class.
Than off to Capoeira (Brazilian fight dance) class tonight!:)
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