it is like equator hot here in Ecuador

Decided to meet the girl at the airport, Quito is a sketchy looking town and since the girl was arriving at 11pm we decided it would be best if we met her at the airport instead of her wandering around in the middle of the night looking for a place to stay. We grabbed her and hightailed it to the bus station to just make the bus down to Guayquil. We made it in about 9am this morning. The airport was right across the street so we checked to see if we could hop a flight to the islands. We were on standby and stood there till 1pm and then booked a flight for the tomorrow morning at 7am. we cabbed into town and got a room at a little hotel. $40 for three of us. Ecuador uses the USD which seems strange but is very convenient as you don´t have to wander how much stuff costs. A beer at the airport $1.20 a nine hour bus ride from Quito to Guayquil $7 and a cab ride clear across town $4, but then a flight to the islands is $380 so not everything is cheap`. We have discovered, i forget the name, but it is Spanish for ´set meal´$1.50 gets you soup with a mystery chunk of meat,. rice and some sort of meat product and a juice. yesterday it was beef in an odd gravy and today was beef and i think tripe in a peanutty sauce. Well wort $1.50. We walked down the main drag and then out along the water front. They have put much dinero into the area and there is a cop with a .38 revolver about every 30yrds or so. You feel very safe here too. Not like Colombia that had a cop with a machine gun on every corner, we would be cruising in the bus and round a corner to see a group of army men machine guns in hand all standing around a tank or armoured car so you feel relatively safe everywhere you go, On our 26 hour bus ride we were stopped and boarded and searched three times. the mostly just pull the guys off and let whitey sit it out, but this night everyone was pulled off except the two hot local girls that were sitting behind us. They pat you down and semi search your bag, looking for guns i think.
We are off to the Galapagos Islands in the morning, nothing booked, don´t know where we are staying or what we are doing, but those we did talk to said, you could book cruises and day trips easily from the main island there., so we are not worried