Day 1 in Pifo Ecuador

I am staying at Margaret's uncles farm in Pifo Ecuador. I have no plans other than attempting the 700 steps daily so i can loose the copious amounts of weight i have gained from drinking massive amounts of Brahma and Caperinas in Brasil the past month. Also, they have llamas at the very top and many, many Pilsners to be drank.

There are more dogs in this town than there are people. One dog, a small poodle, once bit margaret in the leg a few years back and now she has panic attacks every time she walks past the dog. in fact, she actually refused to walk past the poodle by herself so she will stand at the top of the hill and scream for her Uncle Matt or her cousin Alex to accompany her down the hill to the house.

i was doing some business on the toilet last night before bed when in the corner of my blue eyeball i saw the biggest spider of my life. a freaking terranchala. It was mid-business so there was nothing that i could do but hang tight and hope for the best. Me and the terranchala had a stare down contest and im pretty sure he won because i couldnt handle being so close to it so i cut my session short and ran to the other house to get Uncle Matt's help. He began to reassure me that it wouldnt harm me and that they aren't poisonous but i didnt believe him so i googled it and caught him in his own lie. Early this morning, I woke up from a spider dream and i caught a spider crawling off my chest and onto the shelf thing next to my bed. Im pretty sure that because I had Uncle Matt 'take care of the terranchala' last night, that i had unfortunately, unintentionally declared a war against the 8 legged insects... i am now incredibly paranoid....