Salenas during Carnival, about the most crowded it gets. Odds are if you fall over youd crush 4 little kids. I dont like things that crowded.

The people I stayed with in Salenas. For those of you who know Pachy/Anna-Patricia, this is her family plus a few family friends.

In school

Mary McCutcheon from Canada is Camera Careful

My sister and I in front of Lake San Pablo

lake cuicocha

All of us in front of Cuicocha

from the Bascilica Church -- Quito

My sister from the top of the Bascilica

Katie from the Virgen of Quito

Ecuador ground forces

Chris (middle--yeah for chris!) being held by emily and stacy

Ted (right) is the best taiwanese Ive ever met.

Our bus got stuck in the mud coming down from a volcano we climbed. Then it started to hail. We tried to dig it out, put rocks under the wheels, and push but to no avail. We were stuck there for 4-5 hours. Finally a help team got up there and after our 4th try of them digging it out and us pushing we got the thing back on the road. It was cold, really cold.

So Michael-the-new-Aussie led the effort by gallantly climbing under the bus, through the mud and hail,  to place the rocks the rest of us collected under the wheels.

Everyone cold and the digging crew diggin through the mud/hail. 

Meredith Larson and I on the bridge into Baños

Chris, Me, Veronica, Ted, and Daisy

Me, Linda, and Daisy in front of a waterfall in Baños

Philip Witchger likes to climb

This was a bit more impressive in real life... we were sitting on this huge rock over rapids, with vertical cliff walls all around us.

So we gave one of these monkeys a stick and he kept trying to trick it up by holding onto the stick with his feet and the roof with his hands then trying to switch and grab the roof with his feet and the stick with his hands at the same time!