Adios Mexico

It's currently 4.23am and we are sitting in the airport waiting for the coffee shop to open so we can get a desperately needed coffee before boarding the plane to Ecuador via Panama. Yo necessitar cafe!
We woke up around 1.30am despite setting the alarm for 2.15am. Went downstairs to check out at 2.45am and had to wake up the poor guy on night shift. We had been assured the day before that the front desk was manned 24hours and checking out at 3am was no problem and we had booked a Taxi to collect us and take us to the airport. The guy we woke up took a little while to start functioning but the taxi arrived and we got to the airport with plenty of time to spare for our 6am departure.

The woman who checked us in had major attitude. We asked about the departure tax and if it was included in the airline tickets she said no and it would be $24 each. We clarified if it was USD and she said it was Pesos so I gave her 50 Peso which she looked at in disgust like what are you giving me that worthless currency for and said it was USD. So she was either less of a morning person than I am or just a bitch.

We are now waiting outside Starbucks like pathetic caffeine junkies waiting for our fix. Another 25minutes until they open.

Sarah is reading up on Quito in the Lonely Planet deciding which suburb we are less likely to get mugged in. We have put away the out of date second-hand Central American travel books (well, swapped them for trashy paperback fiction) and broken out the brand new, up-to-date Lonely Planet - South America on a Shoestring, which will be our Bible for the next few months.


20 minutes to Coffee time..... oh, and boarding.