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We're back from our

We're back from our day in BaÒos. I always forget how dehydrated I can get at 6,000' while I'm in BaÒos. If I'm off climbing at 10,000' and higher, I'm always thinking about it. But there's something about spending the day in BaÒos that often catches me by surprise. That and the sun. I often come back with a sunburned neck. The sun is more intense up there. And now we're back in the humidity of Shell. I feel it for the first half hour after coming home, and then I'm used to it again. Right now one of my favorite sounds is in the background--a hard rain on the roof. That and the Andean flute music on the CD player.

Anyway, we enjoyed a great lunch at a new Italian restaurant some friends told us about. When we're in BaÒos we usually like to go to the Inca Flame for Mexican food. But that place is now closed as the owners have moved to Cuenca. We managed to do some Christmas shopping too. We also found a new little cafÈ. The owner was handing out fliers on the main street in town, and we happened to get one. So we showed up there in the middle of the afternoon for cappachino. The boys had a smoothie. They were yummy. All in all it was nice to get away for the day. We've been in Shell since we came back to Ecuador on August 9. We were ready for a break.