My Last Day In Quito -Taking Subway To Local Church & Ecuador Election Day / LATAM Flight Experience
Last Day In Quito
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this it's Sunday
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February 9th 2025 I'm Kito
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Ecuador for the continuation of this day
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it's about 8:00 a.m. right now going to
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do a few things around town and then
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later my mom myself my aunt my uncle and
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their two friends are going to be
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getting on a plane for a 1hour
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commute to quink which is about a 10 12
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hour drive but we have opt opted to get
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on a plane and fly over there once I
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arrive there later this evening for
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about another week or so I'm going to be
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in that general area so it's going to be
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kind of a travel day kind of a keto day
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just say see where the day leads it's a
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Sunday I'm inviting you to join me also
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today here in Ecuador is the
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presidential election for their
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officials has nothing to do with me
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because you know I'm not a resident here
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but pretty interesting that I happened
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to be here on that uh on that historic
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occasion join me let's have a day shall
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you he to ride across from the park that
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I've been showing the last series of
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days I've been here is the Windham
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Garden Hotel this is where we stayed
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right here we were mom and I were up on
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the eighth floor we had our a room up
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there pretty good view checking out of
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this and the next the rest of the time
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here in South America we're going to be
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at my uncle's place up in the mountains
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quink yeah Hotel there and park right
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behind me the cross streets Rio Amazon
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ionas and ala
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alamia those are the cross streets of
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where the hotel
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was and I've showed this a couple times
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this little sculpture right over
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here see you later
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sculpture all right goodbye Hotel rest
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of the group and our luggage is
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off the three of us walking in the
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subway and heading to church
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the different coloration here on the
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crosswalks you got green there and you
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got red
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here and over here at La Carolina or
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Carolina not Carolina Carolina is how
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you would pronounce it in the US but
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here it's Carolina there's a Metro
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System so we're taking the metro another
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word for a Subway so leaving the park
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and going down into the nether regions
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of South America Ecuador Keto subway
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system Carolina this is it right here I
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did a lot of subwaying on the
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Underground the tube if you
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will in London but I have not
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taken the subway system here out there
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size of the
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luggage you could take you could take
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one animal in the subway as long as as
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long as your chicken carry and a
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cat not as busy as the London subway
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there's nobody in here but
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no one's darting past me running to the
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Train the lay out of the land will we
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there yesterday at Plaza San
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Francisco guess the subway runs there
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too the chicken must be their
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mascot for the subway
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system it's
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nice glad we doing this new experiences
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new
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countries wonderful
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things we're going just two
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stops so we're here two
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stops so interesting so San Francisco
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obviously is in Califoria
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and right across the bay in San
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Francisco is
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Alam but obviously here as well
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interesting to see familiar names in a
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different
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country find the Gap here but they do
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not want you pulling on the side of the
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door or giving a big thumbs up also this
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would be their version of find the
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Gap all right Subway you were fun two
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stops not
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bad not bad at all this is Guy uh he's
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had a few too many this chicken is very
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again one thing I learned while being
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here gas prices are the same at every
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single
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location Countrywide so if you go to one
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gas pump it's going to be the same in
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another town according to what was
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told one thing I definitely noticed I
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point this out the other day a lot of
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Americanized fast food here but the one
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that is more poignant and more spots
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than any others is KFC there are KFC's
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everywhere and they're gargantuan in
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comparison to like Vicky D's Burger King
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Subway Etc kind of regret not keeping my
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hat on me I put it in my bag I thought
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yeah going to church maybe I shouldn't
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wear a hat but walking in the sun this
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sun is poignant definitely the sun is a
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lot stronger here just cuz you're you
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know 2 miles closer to the Sun than you
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are in Florida elevation
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wise I mean it's still pretty early and
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it is it's getting a little toasty the
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sun is definitely beaming down all right
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we've arrived this is our guide where he
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goes to church it's basically in a big
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gym got the basketball court down there
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I got the seat set up pretty neat
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got the
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communion right
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there it starts in about a half hour all
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right that is Matteo 7:24 through 27
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which obviously is Matthew
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7:24 all right so went to uh
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Bible study and worship service couple
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hours of that and everyone's exited out
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and there's a little vendor out here my
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uncle got me this is called a balone not
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to be confused with
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baloney but yeah a ballone said try
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yourself a bite of Ecuadorian food so
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I'm going have a
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balone this thing is really filling
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there's a little queso in there it's
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like basically fried
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dough an assortment of other things
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pretty tasty though
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all right see what else the day has to
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bestow upon us all right so we're
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splitting the group up into two taxis
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we're going to a back over to Carolina
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Park to the botanical
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gardens all right to the botanical
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gardens we go we don't have the van
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today so we're just staying local and uh
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taking taking taxis we get to jump in a
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taxi hey an Ecuadorian
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taxi all right I just hailed the
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taxi election
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day so evidently everyone here has to
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vote and if you don't vote you get
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penalized by a fine can't just casually
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opt out of voting unless you want to pay
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a fine interesting right
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all right total for the taxi ride $2
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that's it two bucks sculpture here is
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Gallow Plaza lasso that's who this
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gentleman is I guess his last name was
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lass I think the banico gardens are
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right through this little kind of arch
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this little bamboo Archway turns out
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this was the president from up to
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1952 right through the bamboo Archway we
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go Botanical
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Garden we're here to get flower see
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flowers that I love to do but I just
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want to let y'all know that I am keeping
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up with my son I'm not being lazy you've
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been keeping up good I've been keeping
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up up good every day we've done
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something I know you're this old woman
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has
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succeeded the first week we're only
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halfway there Mom goodness gracious this
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I don't know this is going to break the
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bank $4 admission into this
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place can't get over the prices less
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than half of anything any attraction you
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would go to in the US actually probably
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considerably less probably more like a
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quarter of what the price would be to
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get into any kind of attraction in the
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US truth $4 to get in per person there's
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even uh discounts for if you're over 65
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it's half price for every attraction
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we've been through in Ecuador which is
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really really interesting but even $4
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not too bad it's a little vending
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machine of a few items here trumpet
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plants little artwork over here got some
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bicycles painted in some neon colors
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not only is it election day here in
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Ecuador it's also Super Bowl
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Sunday back in the States not sure if
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we'll get around to watching it today or
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not but different versions of tree yeah
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tree
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multicolor lots of different variations
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of tree
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frogs like almost like cocoons of some
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sort up top there in the trees may an
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expanation you see them up there
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versions of
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cocoons the Inca flower to this day
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peasants cultivate quatos at their home
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entrances to ward off evil
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spirits shamans and healers use them in
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rituals to release bad to release bad
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energy that would be the trumpet style
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plants
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there look at this thing wow at
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this see that thing it's banana tree
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it's a banana
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okay huge
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leaves it's like palm tree leaves
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almost but all it is is just the leaves
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I've Just Seen small versions of it I've
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never seen them that
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big I don't know what they're called
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this PTO
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Australia or something now I think that
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might be this tree oh that
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tree it's different that is different
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at it's like a chimney something a
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chimney sweep prod use
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yeah yeah we're getting us some
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cactuses cacti over here
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this is a neat little area little out
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little open air Greenhouse of
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sorts all right now going
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inside the
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greenhouse close the door
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it's like going through the land without
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a boat
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ride terrarium is that what this is
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called terrarium that's what I would
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call
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it smells so like fresh in
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here dirt dirt
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wet dirt that's what it smells
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like some stairs with a little Overlook
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gives you a full
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view of the
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greenhouse let's get the reveal Grand
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yeah yeah bunch of little Venus flly
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traps here NE Little Audrey
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twos a ton of them in there look at that
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and they get eaten oh the insects go in
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there yeah towards the nectar and then
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these things the bottom I guess almost
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like a another version of a fly trap
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insect trap and then there's all kinds
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of different types and sizes and
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Colors oh yeah there's one
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there don't put your finger in there
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don't touch the plants
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there it is the Museum of bonsai wow
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quite a few down
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there look at
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that right on the other side of this
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fence is the park where a lot of vendors
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are selling their Wares and trying to
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get people's attention that's what the
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noises you're hearing as
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they as the customers walk by they'll
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letting them know what they have for
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sale all different types of bons Bonsai
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I do have a fake bons I tree at my house
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very similar to this one closest
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probably to this style but I do not have
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a green thumb and the fact that I've
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never ever rarely ever home doesn't make
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sense for me to have life PL so I got to
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fake one and of course you know someone
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some of my age My Generation when you
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think of bonsai trees you think of one
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thing Mr Miyagi and Karate Kid probably
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brought a whole other element of people
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who had no idea these existed got some
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horse riding over here in the park as
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well you want to do a little horseback
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riding yeah we're right by the hotel we
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checked out of
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earlier little green walking guy kind of
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hard to see him but doesn't really show
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up very well now it's a red
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guy up here is interesting too if you
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come over here there's some sort of
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artwork displayed artwork right here
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take a look you see the artwork there
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and you also see the little manhole keto
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manhole electrical decided to go inside
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this indoor mall to get a bite to eat uh
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like like there's like a super max here
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and there is a mall looks like L Jardin
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mall if I am reading that correctly
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right there there's a place called
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hansul and gret there's a lot of places
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to eat in here but I think maybe we'll
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do I don't know I'm just kind kind of a
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kind of a long for the long for the ride
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food wise on this one they grabbing the
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table over here at
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Hansel or is it Hansel and grle gredle
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and Hansel Hansel Hansel and grle Hansel
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and grle that's what it is never heard
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of this place but here in good things
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Pablo our guy said he recommends it
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bruising around seeing what I can have
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got some empanadas here some tortillas
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tamales got some queso filet minan for
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only $18 filet minan for8
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bucks that's like half less than half
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the price or more than more than half
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less than half the
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price hamburgers sandwiches they got
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everything here a little bit of
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everything what is what are these These
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are Yuka Yuka and are these Yuka corn oh
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these are corn oh they got the corn yeah
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they have yuk ones like that all right
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this is evidently a very uh popular
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drink here in Ecuador called wanina w
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wanina kind of looks like the cocoa
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drink I had yesterday down it doesn't
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taste like it does it taste like it
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what's it taste like well I don't know
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but it don't don't taste like coconut
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but this is like a win and row moment
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when you're in Ecuador you should get
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weno wenom and one of the things I
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ordered was this tamali right here you
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got to unwrap the uh you got to unwrap
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the leaf off of it to get to the tamale
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but starting off with a little tamale
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action this was I think was like $3 $4
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which again Mall pricing for a
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restaurant pretty reasonable all right I
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have now gotten a burrito bowl mom got
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something uh she didn't even know what
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it was she saw somebody at the other
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table and she asked the waiter what it
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was know what that is avocado and
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there's shrimp okay and then those look
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like pants I'm kind of like uh those are
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probably plantains these are plantains
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right there plantains and I got a
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burrito bowl got to walk around the mall
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a little bit there's a sheep right there
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it looks like there's a llama right
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there still a little time it is uh what
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20 minutes till 3 right now no 20
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minutes till 4: I think I'm going to get
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a c coffee here over at Cinnabon coffee
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for Americana is only $150 I'm not going
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to get any desserts I'm pretty full from
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having the meal but look at this this is
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only $1.70 for this right here this is
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just to show some of the prices compared
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to you know what I'm used to in the US
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like right here this is only $1.99 for
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that sweet delicious treat right there
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the heck of I'm kind of curious how much
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these uh these Mickey watches are down
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here got the Marvel watches and you got
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the Mickey one in comparison to like
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what they would be they ended up getting
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a Fel Mickey watch
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for
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$50 which I think is a good deal I don't
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know if for certain but I got a AEL
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Mickey watch 50 bucks which I'm pretty
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sure in the US would be at least double
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that yeah impulse bot why
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uhoh all right I think we found the rest
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of our group it's a neat little
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staircase here
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it's interesting so over there is
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Alam close to the Plaza San Francisco
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which I think is kind of cool because
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alsoo there's some shoes up top Alam is
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across from
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Bay in San Francisco in
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California just like here except there's
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no Bay well there's no Bay looking down
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at Alam over there I love the sight
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lines and the
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views so scenic like something out of
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like a TV show or a movie
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so
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cool so that there Alam no he in the
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right side oh that's not Alam what's
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what's that this is
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a what is it
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a close to Alam got a bunch of flags
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there from other different
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countries little hosta there he was
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saying the Wonder is from Australia
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be a thing around here with the
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ni all right walking up to Plaza s Blas
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yesterday we were at Plaza San
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Francisco little sculptures in front of
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this little
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church trying to get
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some walk-in going on before we head to
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the
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airport this is kind of an impromptu day
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Church day with the
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day that looks so cool so cool look at
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that perfect view with all those
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buildings there in the distance all
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houses up on the side of the Hill
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beautiful the name ISO Miguel armano
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Miguel yeah see he was a professor and
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PR he begins the education for the poor
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people uh for any people the Basilica
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yesterday we went into right there way
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over there
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amazing been on a pigeon kick lately
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I've been really excited about seeing
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pigeons saw some in London saw some
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while I've been here look at this feed
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the birge tupp into a
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bag it's also interesting the pigeons
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here do not get startled like usually
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anywhere else you see pigeons they would
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have already flown off they're just kind
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of just walking slowly away look at
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these pigeons
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that's ala yeah
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alaa the is ala the
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begins all right wonder if check off's
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ever been there whatever I think Al I
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think
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of California San Francisco start Trek 4
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Al look at this Aussie
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hello what's it called koi yeah koi Ki
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he's a very dapp Coy got a bow
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tie
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a all right get an exclusive up here top
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of Pablo's roof here's a really good
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view of
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the chapel we were at
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yesterday Cathedral man thing's
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amazing look at this this is a rooftop
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this is rooftop
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view just so
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awesome had to go up a couple flights of
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stairs and out of the apartment to get
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to it but there
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is the Angel the Mary Angel right up
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there oh that's
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awesome God I got to see this one last
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time we heading to the airport going to
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quink massive place so massive
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airport that alien when I arrived here
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was like a week ago ago give or take
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pretty close to a week ago six days ago
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7even days ago I don't know I lost
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track on the arrival section this is the
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departures level the second one up I was
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wonder if what that was I thought it was
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an alien but now I can definitely see
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it's an alien with a
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laptop right got a few flights we are
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flying laam l a.m. Airlines and going to
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be just doing a 1hour flight never flown
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this Airline before laam flight is at
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8:00 p.m. it's on maybe on here
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somewhere maybe on here
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somewhere you got kind of this like
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little almost like a mall of sorts as
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you're heading through here and have
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legendary hats this is the legendary hat
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company over
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here legendary Hat Company you got a
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little Fountain right there Ecuador
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travel stores
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so this is interesting all of the
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dgates you don't just walk out after
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you've scanned your ID passport porting
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P Etc out to the tarmac you have to get
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on one of these buses here and the bus
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will take us out to the tarmac and then
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we have to climb upstairs to get onto
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the plane but I don't think I've ever
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seen it I mean I've climbed up on a
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plane through the stairs before without
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the gang way and everything but I've
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never seen it where you scan in past the
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desk and everything show your passport
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show the ID Etc and then immediately get
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on a bus oh yeah I forgot to show what I
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bought this was
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$51 right here pretty good deal and he
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said it to the correct time I don't
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really wear watches but I've had my eye
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on this one for a while I've seen it out
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in Florida and I can swear it was a lot
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more than
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$50 it's like $52 with when it was all
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said and done
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anyway yeah myself a little
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souvenir
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Kito if there's something Disney I'm
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going to find it's like a tractor all
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right on to the
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bus to the tarmac
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you ever done this before Mom climbed
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upstairs to get to the
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a319 we we are returning to the
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gate and in a couple minutes probably 30
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minutes we go back to 30 minutes and
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then we'll try again we ended up having
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to go back to the gate for about I don't
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know 30 35 minutes I thought they were
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going to like make everyone get off of
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the plane and they pulled the stairs up
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I was like oh no we're going to have to
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get off the the plane and then they
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pulled the stairs away Captain came on
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said good news everyone well he didn't
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sound like the guy from Futurama
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Farnsworth but that's how I was
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interpreting the good news and we are
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now taking off on our way to quink
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some
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wow very hilly through
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here very
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hilly I don't know if I've ever
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approached approached an airport coming
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in with this many small little Hills
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thank you for choosing to fly with for
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your safety please remain seated until
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the seat Bel sign is turned off when you
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open the overhead G please be care p and
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use both hands to remove your baggage as
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it may have shifted around during the
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flight as you disar make sure you take
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all your personal items with you and
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please do not leave resides inside the
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aircraft you can now use your electronic
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device we hope to see you on board on
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your next
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win oh they disembark off the back also
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that's pretty
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cool look at everybody up here with the
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balloon waving never seen nothing like
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that before people are here like a lot
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of people up here waiting for people to
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get off the
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plane that's fun
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all right over to a
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taxi well I think it might be a few
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degrees cooler here than it was in K all
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right that's going to do it for
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today thanks for watching I'll see you
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