Kept+on+going

Even after all our trouble so far we decided to keep trying to get to Playas. We got a cab back to the bus terminal and tried to find a bus labeled Salinas. To our surprise, there was a bus labeled Playas. We asked, and the drive said the actual name of the town was Playas. How silly is that? So we got on the bus and thought it'd be easy sailing to our destination. Well the adventure wasn't over yet. We rode for about 3 more hours and then the driver said it was the end of the line. So we had to get out with all of our stuff in a place that we didn't know. We didn't know what city we were in. We didn't know if we were at the beach. No idea. We thought we were in trouble. We started walking and I looked to my right and what do you know? The beach and the ocean were right there 100 yards away. We thought we at least found the beach, even if we didn't our friends. We kept walking trying to find a place to stay for the weekend. I looked up and there was a tall hotel building and what do you think it said on the side? Hotel Arena Blanca! It was like finding gold. We found where we had to be. There was one more obstacle that we didn't expect. Jason left the paper with the cell phone number and hotel room number in our hostel in Guayaquil. Awesome. So, we got a drink at the hotel bar and decided to just walk the beach hopefully to find our friends. Well, we did find them and we had a great weekend of fun on the beach, lots of seafood, and good fun. What an adventure to start our Ecuadorian study experience.

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