We spent Christmas day doing some sightseeting. Our first stop was the teleferico, a tall mountain in the middle of the city with a gondola ride. From the top you could see all over Quito, and take a few hikes. From there we heaeded to the Mitad Del Mundo site, which is a monument to the equator (for which Ecuador is named after). We didn't have much time, but managed to scramble around and take pictures at each compass point. There is a large museum, and a red line marking the equator so you could put half your body in the northern, and the other half in the southern hemisphere.
A few of us really wanted to do some more service, so we stopped by a small store to buy snack packs to hand out to some of the people on the street. The store was not quite ready for our order of 80 bags of candy, so we ended up all pitching in and creating an assembly line to crank out the snack bags. It was fun helping out the store owners, and stuffing the bags full of candy. Then we headed to a random street corner and people just started lining up for the snacks. I was amazed at how nicely they lined up, single file, to receive the candy. Unfortunately there were more people than candy, but we did the best we could.
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