set backs

Well we had our first travel hiccup today. We were having supper in beautiful central quito after a long day of seeing the sights when we heard a knock on the window beside us. Some lady was making all these crazy gestures at us, which took us off guard for a moment, and when we turned around our bag was gone. Oldest trick in the book to be sure, the tried and true distraction tactic. We are okay and thankfully we left our passports, some money, and some of our cards in the hostel. WE did however loose our video camera, one of our camera´s, some money, and a few gifts including some post cards(sorry to you who were the recipients). IT is not so much the money we are upset about as the pictures and video from our journey thus far (and the anaconda was really15 feet). So immediately after we realized it was stolen we found a policeman who took us to a place we could report the incident. Soon after the tourist police came to take us too the station for a claim report(keep in mind we are currently only blocks from our hostel before they took us). So they drove us to the station and got our report completed and that was it...only we didnt have any money or any idea where we were. So "graciously" the policeman gave us a tourist map to walk back to our hostel (by now it is dark). Well we managed to make it and when we told the lady at the hostel she said we were the third one today from that one hostel, buisy day in Quito I guess. Well we are thankful that we are safe and sound, just a little flustered. I guess we will most likely continue on to Guaranda and salinas tomorrow, let you know how it goes.