Journey to the centre of the earth...

Today I stood with one foot on one half of the world, the other foot on the other half. It was quite cool. Headed off to the equator line this morning - about an hour from Quito - with Marcin, Sonia and Duncan. We went to the fake one first, where there´s a big monument and a long line. They calculated wrong. Then went round the corner to the real deal. It was skill. You get to do all these experiments, like pour water one side of the line (it swirls to the right), pour it the other side of the line (it swirls to the left) and pour it actually on the line (it falls straight down.) Then there´s the whole balancing an egg on the top of a nail (easy on the equator line) and losing all your strength whilst stood on the line (not that I had much to begin with, but it was weird. Weird science.) And then there was my personal favourite. You weigh less. For that short amount of time I was practically Nicole Richie.

The fake line



Water tests



Egg balancing



Strength loss



Me



Then there was loads of other stuff to do. Shrunken heads to see. Ancient houses to look around. Dart blowing to be done. Ridiculous hats to be purchased (Duncan.)

Shrunken heads



Darts



Hats



Yesterday was spent recovering (again) from 4 bottles of rum. Here we all are. It was fun. But really messy. And the night ended in tears. And being bent over a toilet. And the morning began with being ashamed. All good...