Saquisilí, Latacunga, and the best pizza ever.

Okay, so Will and I are computer junkies today. There are no internet cafes in Saquisilí, the town in which we are staying, but we came into Latacunga, a larger city nearby, to eat good food and get money and catch up on email, etc.
So.
We left Riobamba yesterday, still tired from the events of the day before. Read that entry first, by the way! We were slightly sad to leave our hostel, although it was the only bright spot in the dry dusty greyness of the city overall. It was a ridiculous place...a maze of courtyards populated by ceramic elephants and a rusty old car led to our suite, complete with kitchen and the puffiest, laciest, most satiny white bed I have ever had the privledge to be disgusted by. But the owners were sweet and funny and very helpful and that always makes or breaks a hostel.
Anyway, Riobamba is easier to leave than it is to get to, and we spent a comfortable few hours acutally sitting on a bus to Latacunga. As soon as we arrived, we decided it was time to leave, and we would take our chances on finding a bus to and a place to stay in the tiny town of Saquisilí. The book mentions this town only because of their famous Thursday morning market, but says nothing of places to stay or things to do on Friday through Wednesday.
We got there without any trouble, however, and after wandering around town for a while decided to stay in the hotel right next to where the bus had dropped us off to begin with...right on the main square, with a balcony overlooking the most well-manicured gardens I´ve seen in South America.

We took a long walk, discussed our plans to buy an old house in Ecuador, turn it into a hostel, and never come home, then ate some dinner and passed a quiet night playing rummy.
This morning we returned to Latacunga and realized that it´s not quite as worthless as we thought in passing yesterday. If nothing else, they have amazing pizza.
Our plans for the next few days involve exploring the rest of the Quilotoa loop, a series of tiny towns surrounding Lake Quilotoa, so we may be out of touch for a while. Don´t worry!