Olah everyone! How's my Spanish? Pretty good right? This morning was our last panga ride. Lucky for us, it was a dry landing. What on earth is a dry landing you may ask. Well I will tell you. During our visit to the Galapagos we had two kinds of landings frm the little zodiac boats which they call pangas, wet landings and dry landings. During a wet landing the boat driver would pull up onto the beach as far as possible and then we would get off in our water shoes or barefoot and step into the water. We would then walk up to the beach. The dry landing was just the boat pulling up to the dock and us walking off. After five days on the boat with two islands everyday we were finally making our last landing. Fortunately we didn't have to carry our suitcases because they made their own landing on the zodiacs. We got off the zodiac but couldn't get off the dock the normal way because a sea lion was lying on one of the steps. I've never seen that before. There was also a park near the beach that had been inhabited by sea lions. There were also two slides that went into the water. We couldnt figure out if they were for humans or animals. As we reached the bus I was surprised to find a real town. We were on the Galápagos Islands and it looked like we were in any other city on the mainland. After we had a little trouble ok a lot of trouble finding the right bus, we got on the right one and took a 45 minute bus ride to the giant tortoise breeding center. The purpose of the center is to replace the 20,000 tortoises that have been stolen and eaten before the Galapagos became a national park. When we got there, we almost immediately saw the giant tortoises. They were giant! Hence the name. "Be careful of that tree!" said our guide. It turns out that one of the trees found on the side of the path is poisonous! If you touch it to your face, you go blind and if you swallow it you choke to death. No kidding. Ok spending this visit staying away from all trees everywhere. Turns out the tortoises are not affected by this tree and it is a main part of their diet. (To all my grandparents, my dad says that I overstated the previous lines so you should not worry even though I told the truth.) while I was disappointed to not see many tortoises, it was very exciting to see the baby tortoises. They were so cute and small. No one could believe that they would one day become the giants ones that we had seen previously living for over 100 years. The oldest one in the Galapagos was 150 years old. Wow! A little lesson for all of you, if you sit on the bus step that is full of mud, you will get mud on your pants. I wonder who made that mistake. Oh yeah that would be me. It's not like it looked like I went to the bathroom in my pants. Ok maybe it did. We left the breeding center and went to one of the only towns in the Galapagos for an hour of shopping and eating that somehow turned into 20 minutes of rushed chachki shopping. Who needs lunch anyway right? Off to a small airstrip that they call an airport. We waited in line and then waited in line again and then finally got on the plane. One of the strangest airport experiences I've ever had. Three takes off and landings later, heading north and then south and then northa gain, we made it to Lima, Peru. Who needs dinner? We did so I got a slice of pizza at the Quito airport. Marc and Rebecca got a burger from Johnny rockets. It was midnight before we arrived at our beautiful hotel in Lima. I tried to fall asleep with out much success but by 1:45 I finally called it a night, or a morning.