Wednesday February 29/12

Wednesday Feb 29/12 update

Leap year day and Abby Foo’s birthday.  He was an old classmate.  He would have been about 16 today.

Today we are preparing to go and finalize our purchase of the house and then rush off to catch a jet to Quito to get our Cedula residency papers.  We hope everything falls into place and goes smoothly.

Last night we walked in the rain to Monay KFC for supper.  On the way I remarked to Bella how I gauge the river’s height by how much I can see of this monster boulder midstream near the bridge.  It has rained quite heavily the previous few days and only a foot of the boulder could be seen, instead of the usual 2 to 2.5 feet.  On the return trip an hour later the water was flowing over the top of it.  I am glad the flood plain is on the other side of the river!  We were happy to see some sunshine this morning.

Jim and Cindy gave us another 30 movies or so, so now we need to get a DVD player so we can watch them on our nice TV instead of on the computers.  I tried hooking up the laptop to the TV a couple of different ways without success.  DVD players start under $40 here, just like at home so there is no sense using the laptops.

The house across the road on the corner is almost completely demolished and they are beginning to truck away a lot of the debris.  It has been over a month of manual labour taking it down.  Since they have had the bricks on site for a month already we don’t imagine it will be long for the new construction to begin.

We wish everyone good health.

That was today’s excitement.     Hugs to all.