Tuesday October 9, 2012

Tuesday October 9/12 update

I slept on the couch for 3 hours because the boys had occupied my bed, but they found me so I headed upstairs but the followed me, so not much sleep was had after that.

I ended up downtown and was crossing the river to notice the rickety, rudimentary scaffolding being used to work on two adjacent bridges.   There is no Occupational Health and Safety issues in this country… whatever gets the job done….  I then took a few shots while sitting at Parque Calderon of the buildings, the shoe-shiners and the hustle and bustle.

I had managed to easily find the shop that sells these solar-powered dancing flowers.   We already have one in our front window and Jorge Beltran liked it so much that I decided to grab one for him, and another for us.  Two for $5 wasn’t bad.   I called Jorge and he popped over to pick it up at lunchtime.

I took the #50 down to our old neighborhood to see if the electrician was done repairing our house fan.  He said the brushes in the motor had broken down and he plugged it in to show me that it now runs as good as new.  The repair cost was another $5 from my pocket.  I managed to get it home using the bus.

There was a disturbing message on GringoTree about two missing American missionary women that had very little information.  I emailed them to find out where they have proper information posted.  Please see

https://www.facebook.com/WhereIsBre    There are very large hints of religious cult involvement, etc that just boggle the mind of any rational person.  I guess Ecuador is not immune from nutjobs either.  We hope these poor women are found safe and sound.

Man, I spent all afternoon working on uploading photos and preparing others, then had to get busy on this blog…

That was today’s excitement.   Please see all photos at souvenircuenca.blogspot.com.  Hugs to all.