Middle Earth. Shout out to all the LOTR fans out there.
Today Alex, Kane, and I went to the equator. We took all the embarrassing touristy pictures and had a great time.
The place with the yellow line isn't actually the equator. Explorers hundreds of years ago thought that it was, so they built this really huge monument and park surrounding it. When GPS came out, they discovered that the equator was actually 200 meters north. Oops. So now there's an indigenous museum at the real equator.
Things unique to the equator:
-Water drains straight down.
-You can balance an egg on the head of a nail (though I think this takes magical powers because I couldn't do it for the life of me)
-With your arms out and your eyes closed you can't walk in a completely straight line because of the forces pulling you in different directions.
It was a really cool experience followed by a great lunch of empanadas! The restaurant was a little sketchy so if I'm sick in a few days remind me that this is why!
Wow! No clockwise or counter-clockwise draining! Thanks for remembering to check on this for me!! :)
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