Last Day in Quito for Now

Sunday, January 25th 2015 Quito
It's actually, Saturday January 31st but I'm trying to catch up on posts. The slow internet is very frustrating. So I'm pretending it's last Sunday.
Today was our last day in Quito and the sunniest, warmest day we've had yet. We have no real touring plans for the day, just meeting Josh's friend Parshan for lunch here in the Mariscal at the Magic Bean.

 Our hotel, the Cayman, is well located in the Mariscal but at least the side street we're on is a bit quieter.

Parshan is originally from Guelph and went to university in Toronto. She is an architect working here in Quito. We really enjoyed our lunch with her. We're hoping to get together again near the end of our trip.
In the afternoon, we enjoyed the sunshine in the garden at the Cayman Hotel. While we were there, we met a couple from Lethbridge who had just returned from the Galapagos and had a wonderful time there. We're back and forth all the time thinking if we want to go to the Galapagos, the Amazon, both or neither. Anyway, today the Galapagos sounded good. We also traded dog and monkey bite stories from southeast Asia. While Anita had gotten bit by a dog in Cambodia, this guy actually got attacked by monkeys on the island of Kho Phi Phi in Thailand and had to do the whole series of rabies shots. Ah the good times.
In the evening, we packed up because we wanted to get a reasonably early start for Otavalo the next morning.