feliz dia de san patricio

hola!

it came to my attention yesterday morning at breakfast with antonio, my host father...
Ecuador doesn't celebrate st. pattys! Our group collectively decided to inform everyone about this important holiday, fighting our hardest through the language barrier.
I think that my translation yesterday sounded something like this:
"It is a very important day for us. For good luck we wear green and drink a lot of beers. It has a small green man who is magic and likes plants with four flowers. Understand? Very important."
Hopefully he got the jist of it.

By the end of the night we had drank all the servesas the bar had, we made all of our Ecuadorian friends go home to change into green and come back, two girls were throwing all their st. patty's day fun up in the street and one of them was eventually carried home by the dive instructor (all the skeevi ecuadorians crowding around).
and i proposed to carlos, again. he said no, again. we're cool though.
aaand we played traditional american college student drinking games by the ocean. Ever heard of 21? that's a good one.

and the night ended successfully around 5am with me hammocking peacefully outside my bedroom. good times had by all. :)