Livin' my life on the farm

Ecuador Day 2

Wednesday 7-18-07

I woke up at five from Anna’s alarm clock. She didn’t wake up from it so I went to take a shower first. I turned on the shower and waited a few minutes for it to warm up. It didn’t. Five minutes later it was still freezing! Turns out they had the handles on wrong, for us, so I had cold water running the whole time. After I figured that out I took a nice warm shower.  I got out and it was still dark outside. Hmm?? I’ll just lay down for a minute. I woke up 2 hours later to room service calling telling us that it was 5 am. Huh? I got up at 5 and took my shower. Didn’t I?? Turns out Anna was 2 hours behind Quito and she forgot to change the time. So I was up at 3 am taking my shower. No wonder I was so tired! Lol  We didn’t get up though. We slept another 50 minutes. Kaileen rolled over and gasps “guys breakfast is in 10 minutes!”. We made it to breakfast though we were rushing in our room. Ended up we were pretty near the beginning of the breakfast line. One group of guys came down close to 7 and said they had just woke up from their alarms that had been going off since 5am. Haha They stayed up a little to late last night I think.

            Breakfast was rice with potatoes and papaya. It was alright. Worship was held by Steve Case. He told us to talk to each other about how we got here. Then he told us that 9 teens had missed their connecting flight to Quito. Their first flight had been delayed due to bad weather and the second flight left before they even landed. Heidi, the gall who works in the Maranatha Office, called the airports to try to find some way to get them to Quito. The Houston airport has only 1 flight a day to Quito and the next week was booked. So the only way to get them here was if some one didn’t show. But that would only get one teen here. Oh my goodness! I felt so bad for them. And this morning there was 2 teens that lost their luggage. Eek! He went on to say that even when you’re loosing your mind God still has a plan. The exact second he said mind a coo coo clock started going off. AHH!! It was so funny!

            After breakfast we split into our groups for the day. First we went to “Middle Earth” to take our pictures. After that my group went to a Cathedral and got a tour of the place. I couldn’t take any pictures other then the floor in one room. Arg! The painting and statues were so amazing! But they had a city law or something that prohibited photography. Outside the Cathedral was a big band and some dancers. Very pretty. There was even little kids in costumes dancing out there. So cute! After the dancers left some police men walked by, they guarded the place. They were carrieng swords. Kaileen and I were like AWESOME!! So I went up to them and asked if we could get a pictue with them. They both said “Si”. Hehe So we got our picture with them. They didn’t really smile for the picture but Anna saide we made their day. Haha She speaks Spanish so she could understand what they were saying.

Me, Kaileen, and her friend. Kaileen is on the

equator line and we are on the north and south sides

                                                      The little Dancers outside of the Cathedral

Kaileen and I with the police men.

Just up the hill from the Cathedral was a statue.

                After that we headed for the market place. There was hundreds of shops set up. Kaileen and I went around buying stuff together. She knew how to say “how much” and I knew numbers so we bartered like crazy. It was so fun! One guy was all like “come get tattoo. Earring pretty on you” Kaileen and I looked at each other and laughed. I smiled and said “No grais.”.  Kaileen was looking for a sweater for her mom. She found one she liked and asked if the guy had it in a larger size, it was a small. He said “ No, one size fit all, si. Look.” Then he takes it and stretches it over himself. He was a good sized guy too. He insisted it would fit her mom. hahaha   One of the staff was trying to get a picture of this one lady. She was wearing traditional clothes. She must have known because she kept her back to him the whole time. He just kept trying. She took off around the corner once and put on a different color shawl. It was hilarious.

            We headed off to the gondola after that. We went up 13,000 feet to the top of a volcano. No worries it was inactive. Everyone got sick. Ugg.  So tired and light headed. Everyone said I looked awful. Great.

            A picture of Quito from the gondola

              We got back just in time for supper. Once again rice and potatos. I think I am going to starve if that’s all we eat. After supper Steve told us that not one, not two, but all nine of the Houston bound teens got on the flight. How crazy is that! All of them! Then when they got in they said someone saw the Maranatha on their shirts and bround them the luggage the other two teens lost. So they brought it along, not even knowing whos it was. God works in amazing ways doesn’t He?!

            After supper we had worship. Sang lots of songs then headed off to bed. Anna, Kaileen, and I stayed up late talking about nothing. Haha good times.

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{ 1:34, Friday, August 10 } { Posted by kember }

Sounds like fun!

Kember ><>

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{ 11:38, Monday, September 17 } { Posted by Anonymous }

ah, i do wonder if art ever got that picture of the poor lady :p
nice recap by the way :D i stopped writing in my journal like the 4th day so i had such a hard time writing a recap haha! :D

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{ 11:38, Monday, September 17 } { Posted by Anonymous }

haha oh yeah forgot to leave my name. that was kaileen who just left u a comment lol