"When in Ecuador!"

There are many things that one can do in Ecuador that probably wouldnt happen back home! We use this expression a lot around here. So "when in Ecuador"......

Fruit Shishkabobs! They have these stands around town and it is fruit covered in your choice of chocolate and brownies! They are sooo delicious!









For Ninos day there was a parade with performances in the street. I had an off and was out in town and there were all these people crowded around taking pictures. They looked famous so we joined in taking pictures with them! They may possibly be famous.... were still not sure!

There are flower markets full of beautiful flowers! Nicole and I decided to buy us a dozen roses for $6! "When in Ecuador" right!?

 Nicole and I with our roses in our room!

Under the Cathedral there are Catacombs in the basement! It was kinda creepy, we were the only ones down there and it was just a huge hall. I was surprised that the tombs were not very old. They are past priests and some were just from last year.

The statue at the end of the hall.... creepy?

Beautiful stain glass window in the cathederal!

A couple of us went on a city tour of Cuenca! We rode on the top of a double decker bus! It was really fun and cool to see all the buildings and things we havent been to!

                                               The third largest cathedral in South America

                                                The river that flows all through Cuenca

View of all of Cuenca

The bus took us up to Turi, which is a farming community that looks down over Cuenca. It was beautiful up there!

Up on the mountain in Turi is this place where women would tie their hair as a sacrifice. It was really disgusting. There was lots of hair on there along with animal bones and such. We decided to join the tradition and tied our hair along with the others. "When in Ecuador!"

There has been a holiday all week called Corpus Crispy (sp?) anyways it is the celebration of christ and his body or something like that. They had the streets aligned with tables and tables of baked goods! I was seriously mesmorized by it all, it looked so good! So we got a few things to try out and I have to admit... It was not very good. Sure looked delicious but I would take my Sugar Daisy over this any day! It was still fun to walk the streets and experience the culture.

                                                                 Out for Ice cream!

                               Only in Ecuador would you see flag throwing street performers

                                           Jenni, Jaydynn and I at dinner for Annas birthday!

              For Corpus Christy they build these towers that they light on fire along with fireworks. They were really cool but unfortunately we were not able to see them on fire because of curfew....

                                                                Fireworks! Wooo!

The coolest thing ever! The streets were just full of people and groups crowded around street performers and music. There was also fireworks and people lighting of lanterns! It was like a movie moment. The people there look at us like we are some celebrities because they love Americans down here. There were about 12 of us walking the streets and people kept on wanting pictures with us. It was so much fun dancing in the streets with fireworks and lanterns lighting the sky. Now Ecuadorians sure know how to party!

                     Jenni and I lighting off our lantern in the street along with hundreds of others!

As we were trying to find a taxi to take us home we ran into this cute little gelato shop! It was the best thing I have ever had! and even better it was only a dollar!