Ezequiel and the Historic Distric of SD

The GCA guys dropped us off at the historic district of the Santo Domingo and the adventure continued. Remember this trip began with a return trip up in the air, so we had no hotel reservation. Gene had googled a hotel in Santo Domingo and found a hotel called the Hotel Pallacio. We strung together the little Spanish we knew, walked for about 30 min. finally to find the HP. It was full. No vacancy. Evidently a cruise ship came into port today so most hotels are packed out. The desk clerk at the HP gave a few suggestions without any promises of vacancies. As we were walking out, I said, "Yo neccessito taxi aeropuerto estan cuatro y media des la mananas," which is my attempt to say I need a taxi at 4:30am. The desk clerk said to wait a second and she went out to grab a cab driver named Ezequiel and E proceeds to walk us to a hostel that is about 2/3 the rate of the HP and there are available rooms. Ezequiel then tells me he will meet me outside the hostel at 4:30am and take me to the airport. How great is that? Tran and I tipped E pretty well.