Mucha Trucha

This means "a lot of trout." As you probably know, I'm not a big fan of fish.However, when a couple of Ecuadorian friends from Rotaract (Rotary for young adults) asked my friend Alessandra and I if we wanted to go hiking and fishing, how could I resist? About an hour outside of Quito we came to the trout lake, and were welcomed by the sign above. For those of you who don't habla the espanol, the little alien is saying "the trout are waiting for you." Little Alien Man was not lying.

We found a giant lake filled with them, and were given wooden polls with a piece of string and a hook at the end. After I attached some sort of worm, I threw my line into the trout-infested waters. Within five minutes I had caught lunch. My friends were also successful, although Alessandra was struck by a flailing trucha as my friend Maria Fernandez swung her fishing rod around in panick. Once we got things back under control we brough our fish to the restaurant where the chef prepared it to our liking. I got mine cut into small pieces, although I forget the name for this.

The other adventure of the day was taking a lift - cracked plastic chairs held together by rusting metal - up a giant hill overlooking the lake. At the top we hiked around and took turns on a zipline swing similarly unsafe. The pictures capture the good times.