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23rd August 2008: So, once safely on my flight to Miami I start to get excited about the next phase of my trip....South America! The Galapagos Islands have always been in my top 5 places to visit so the idea of getting to see them and all the wildlife there soon helps me to stop moping about having to leave the jungle. The chance to have a whole two weeks mother and daughter bonding time after months of limited emailing and phone calls is also very exciting and by the time I get to Miami I am bouncing up and down in anticipation. Charge off to collect and drop-off my bag before finding the boarding gate and looking frantically for Mum.....at last I see her! Lots of excited jabbering from me before we board the plane to Quito, with plenty of time to catch upon each other's news.
We arrive in Quito late at night, my bag has gone missing and our transfer to the hotel hasn't turned up so we spend a while trying to find out where both of them are before giving up and getting a taxi to our hotel. We're only spending one night here before leaving for the Galapagos in the morning, but our room is lovely , with a real tree growing through the middle! Luckily Mum has brought me a supply of new clothes (in fact, three-quarters of her suitcase is devoted to my clothes - thanks Mum!) so I at least have some clean clothes to change into!
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