Parking Ticket - Vulqano Park

We had another meeting at XPLORER today, an agent from the American Embassy came to talk to my group about the dangers in Quito. He told us about all the sketchy places and the easiest ways to get mugged. The whole thing was kind of intimidating but it was all good information. 

Before the meeting I was doing more errands with Roberto and I was waiting in the car as I often do. It had been a long time, probably a little less than an hour and I had no idea where he was. Then I saw this cop walking up and down the street putting tickets on all the cars that were illegally parked. I was hoping that he would see that I was in the car and, despite the fact that we were parked in the worst place possible, keep walking. But no. he pulled out his little book and started scribbling a ticket. So I talked to him and he told me that I couldn't park the car there and that he was going to write a ticket. So i told him not to and that we had only been there for 10 minutes and that Roberto was on his way back. He seemed really skeptical but I just kept telling him that it was fine and i talked him out of writing it. So I guess I lied to a cop, but I saved Roberto from an expensive parking ticket. He wasn't back for a while either haha, it would have sucked if the cop came back. 

So Roberto and his girlfriend picked me up from the meeting at XPLORER, he was acting all cool, it was funny but I didn't say anything. He asked if I wanted to go to the fun park, but he is hard to understand sometimes and I didn't quite get what he said but I said yes anyway. So we drove around for a while then stopped outside a gate and two of his girlfriend's friends came out and got in the car. They kind of took me by surprise, he hadn't said who else was coming. We picked up Ismael from the house and then went to the park. 

The park was called El Parque Vulqano. It was on of the mountain we tried to drive up yesterday but on the other side, where there are actually roads. The place was empty because it was night, cold, and it had rained earlier so everything was wet. The rides were either really well made, or old and sketchy. There was a small roller coaster that rattled like no other and other rides that went upside down maybe weren't supposed to. Who knows. It was alot of fun, but we all left rather queasy.

I am having trouble putting pictures in this blog but when I get it working there will be many I promise.