Pizza in a Cone!

This is a truly magical invention, this guy needs a noble prize for the perfection of this product. It’s a pizza its in a cone! A pizza IN a cone! Forget trying to hold a slice after one too many beers on a Friday night with two hands and your pinkies extended to keep the topping on the thin crust and not drip any oil/ tomato or cheese all over yourself or in your hair ( is that just me?). For me I know it’s been a truly top night if I have food in my hair, strange way to judge a night out but tried and tested!

Anyway the true legend Crystal suggested we all get a pizza at stupid o’clock last Friday after enjoying the micro brewery finest, always up for food after Beer I was in! Then ….. pizza in a cone was mentioned, this is the point where my life changed forever! I even started taking photos of random people enjoying the Pizza in a cone experience, Am I the last person to find out about this remarkable product? Surely it has changed the dirty kebab/burger world evermore?     

Male or Female?

   

In the oven

There she is! Beautiful!

Us enjoying our Pizza's in a Cone, also with a nice Tampon ad in the background!  

The Man The Legend! 

Fashion- BOOM got your boyfriend

Ok I am not the hottest on Fashion but I feel I can comment on some on the terrible sights I have seen here in Ecuador. Now this is not just the Ecuadorians oh no some of the Gringos really need shot, now I haven’t had the courage to take a photo of these unique breeds. However, fear not our imaginations will not let us down! Ok picture this…..Jesus sandals, Ecuadorian striped trousers, tie-dye tee shirts and topped off with Peruvian woolen over the ears hat! I fucking kid you not all together! You would not inflict this sight on people back home so why are they doing it to my eyes here? They I am sure know they look like complete and utter knobs as you don’t see these bad boys walking around any cities in Britain. Well maybe Warrington as every time I have gone there I am never overly surprised at what I see…. Anyway here are some pics to wet your imagination.

On to Ecuadorian’s poor taste in Tee shirts, remember a time around the mid 90’s where people unforgivably had tee shirts with stupid saying written on them. Things like ‘ this bitch bites back’ ( yes I had that one!) or ‘too sexy for you’ and other inexcusable things on? Well its still here….. Best by far was a large middle aged woman wearing ‘BOOM, got your boyfriend’  But as her breasts were so large the BOOM was spread out over them and turned into CAP locks with the ‘got your’ only just seen under them. I wanted to ask her if she truly understood the meaning, then tell her I think its been a while since she had stolen anyone’s boyfriend! This sight I am sad to say I didn’t have a camera to hand but I promise it is as terrible as your imagining. 

 Now that’s my fashion rant over, as I look in my wardrobe at the same 4 outfits I packed from Lima 3 months ago and think why out of all my clothes did I bring this rubbish? The woman in the laundry has got to know me well as I have to go there so much and even bought me a pair of socks ….. This is the god honest truth Sonja ( yes first name terms) told me my socks were very old and here is a new pair!                  

Avocados

I know my blog just gets more and more interesting! However, I am now a self confessed Avocado addict. I eat on average 3 avocados a day so though I best check I am not doing any long term damage, like turning myself green or something. So here is my findings- Avocados have around 340 calories so that a total of 1,020 calories per day, now I am not one of these freakish women who know how many calories are in everything, but I would guess that’s a bloody lot of calories! So I Googled how many calories are in a Mars bar to get a comparison. 242 calories!!!!! I am eating the equivalent of over 4 fecking Mars bars a day! My worry was turning green but now I am going to be as big as a house within a month! I need to stop but even today I freaked out because I couldn’t find Avocado woman…. I had to travel and buy my Avocados from someone else! Now they are just not as big or as buttery as hers.

On the plus side I have great shinny hair just now and clear skin, does this out weigh becoming fat?….. no pun intended!      

Avocado Woman where are you? 

International Day of Happiness

No I am not joking -International day of Happiness, just hearing them words together turns me into a miserable boring Brit. Why cant they keep it in America ( I can only guess this idea came from an American)? Its like the so called world cup they have, what other countries are in it that stand a chance of winning AMERICAN football? No one else wants to play it! 

I think I am a fairly happy person wouldn’t say I bring negativity ( well not intentionally even after that out burst) to situations, but today I am feeling depressed just because I heard it was international Happiness Day. It’s like when someone says ‘why so glum? Come on give us a smile’ to the reply of…… Fuck Off!’

Sorry rant over! Now to go out with some other boring unhappy Brits and complain about the weather.   

Lowering our mental ages

Last week we closed the hostel for refurbishment so this meant everyone could take a holiday, but poor old Crystal and I had to teach so no Holibobs for us. Instead we seen an empty hostel as the same as when your parents first left you alone in the house, yes we were very mature!

 We organised pants day ( no trousers aloud, just because we could) and also built a fort using nearly all the sheets and pillows from every bed in the hostel. Got to say its one of the most magnificent forts ever seen! Crystal I feel became a little too attached to the fort and slept in there every night, she also spend all her days off in there. Not sure how she is going to cope in the real world this week….. 

Veggie

So today I realised that I haven’t eaten meat since last Friday, that I can remember! There could have been a cheeky kebab on Friday or Saturday night. However, I didn’t wake up with any in my hair, which often happens with late night food Purchases. Anyway went off subject for a bit there, so I am going to give this veggie malarkey a go but I have to be realistic …… What Can I not live without? The only thing I would miss is seafood so I have met fake vegetarians who eat Fish and even chicken, But never knew what they are called and I don’t want to announce I am a fake veggie, So ( drum roll please) now I am a Pescetarian. Sounds cool, hey?

                                                      

I feel this will be an easy task in Ecuador there is plenty of vegetables and meat is not to much in your face, not like France where they are just confused……. But why you don’t eat the meat cooked in erbs??? I remember being on a training course in France with a veggie friend and every night they would bring him something with meat or fish in, every night he would send it back and get a green salad in return. The final night after being given quiche lorraine he had enough and stormed into the kitchen to speak with the head ‘chef’ and all we in the restaurant could hear was’ If its got a face then NOOOOO!!!!!’  The reply from an angry French chef was ‘ It has no face it is quiche lorraine’ followed by ‘ It’s a fucking pig!!!!’

Wish me luck guys       

Cheeky Birthday weekend

So what do you get when you mix 9 of us with 7% Beers, mojito’s and Annie’s home bottled rum…… Yep you got it FUN times! So we all head to Banos once again, I get there on Friday while most people arrive Saturday. However, fear not I find Patricio and Jaana from the boat to the isle de plata back in January and as always they are up for a couple.  So out we head on Friday night just for  a couple , looking back food may have been a good idea before, as midnight comes and Michelle is leathered once again! As Saturday morning arrives I am told ‘ I could get drunk just from being near you’ err cheers made paranoid/hung-over me feel great, as everyone start arriving for my birthday things are not getting better in my stomach or head! So what to do? Yes head to the local brewery and order their strongest beer at 4 in the afternoon. And it worked….. straight back on it with some good advice of food! Much dancing, laughing and funny faces followed. Thinking this could be a hard birthday I was pleasantly surprised to find mostly happy thoughts in my head ( The rum will have helped this I guess).

Thank you to everyone involved, I have really have made some wonderful new friends here in Ecuador. X