Thursday September 27/12 update
OMG awake at 3am again and can’t sleep so may as well use
the computer while it has some speed.
Trying to use it in the evening has become a joke. Everybody in Ecuador must be on in the evening
and it slows down so much that Gmail won’t even load properly.
My sister Yvette sent me this “Glee” karaoke recording of my
sister Leonie accompanying our great-niece (turning 8 soon), Erin, in a
song. Erin
is so amazing for such a young girl that I just had to share this. Give it a listen:
This morning was an informal meeting of our former Spanish
class for conversational practice.
Nancee, Ray and myself met at Noel and Christina’s apartment for coffee
and to try to use our Spanish, and avoid speaking English. Gosh, Noel and Christine have such a lovely
condo with great views, and they have decorated it with such great art.
We broke off to go for almuerzo lunch a couple of blocks up
Solano called Kadaffa. The lunch was
delicious and is served by this wonderful Cuencano couple with the most
precocious 3-year-old. They are located
in an old 4-storey wooden structure that was once owned by a rich family so
they could survey their surrounding land.
It once had a magnificent 360 degree view but that has now been ruined
by a Rosenthal Developments huge condo hi-rise next door. The place is decorated with many Venetian-type
masks though not nearly of the same quality.
We were taken on a tour upstairs where they allow friends, at no charge,
to hold art and photographic exhibitions.
It is a very impressive place with wood floors and a spiral staircase..
We kept dodging passing rainstorms (yes, I know I asked for
rain yesterday, but remember that I asked for them at night). Anyway, we were very fortunate that we did
not get soaked in any of our travels today.
We returned to Noel and Christine’s condo which has a view
of a treed garden below that is infected with hummingbirds, and they have 2
feeders in their windows. Naturally I
took many, many photographs and had to delete most of them as they are out of
focus. Trying to guess the distance, and
remain still, and capture them at the right moment takes a lot of patience and
a little calisthenics, leaning over the kitchen counter to shoot through an
open window. Then I tried shooting
right through the window and that is when I got my best shots. I was actually surprised that I got as many
decent shots as I did. Anyway, Thank You
Noel and Christine for your hospitality.
I caught the #15 back, and culled many of my hummer photos
while we struggled through rush hour traffic.
I had 110 photos to sift through so that was the delay before anything
gets posted tonight. I only kept 52 of
the many, many photos taken today.
I got off at Monay Mall and went in to Coral and spent $64
on groceries and booze. Now we need
company to help us drink the booze. My
rum bottle hasn’t been touched since January, so when are you coming to
visit???
That was today’s excitement. Please see all photos at souvenircuenca.blogspot.com. Hugs to all.
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