Hanging Out in Quito

The trip is winding down and we have enjoyed a nice change in scenery. Everyone enjoyed their first shower in the last five days yesterday. After that we spent the evening playing games together. We are staying in the GMU guest house here in Quito where we have warm beds to sleep in and a nice homemade breakfast in the morning.

Today we traveled in Ecuador to a market where we could shop for souvenirs and such. It was much different than shopping at home. Several similar shops are all together outside in a square. We just walked around and at each place someone would try to sell us their product by speaking to us in Spanish. They would tell us a price but we had a chance to bargain with them to get it lower. It was a different experience and many of us got some interesting items.

Now we are back at the house and are ordering some pizza for dinner and playing some more games. Tomorrow we have some sight-seeing and shopping on the agenda. Then we will be packing up and ready to head back home.

Hope this is helpful in keeping up with us. This trip has been wonderful, and we hope you all are doing great. We can't wait to get home to tell you all about it.

All four days we had intense soccer (futbol) games. We played against the Quechuan kids; they beat us twice and we beat them twice.