First Photo

Hello Dear Bwog Weadurs,

I have not been writing because I am a critically lazy person who needs to eat cheese and watch The Big Bang Theory. However, I am also attentive to my readers' needz and will post some pictures from my time abroad. Did you guys know that I went to Ecuador? Me neither.

So, the plan is to put up a picture a day in medium-chronological order from my time in Yekuador. I'll tell a little story background for it and then you can see what I saw, hear what I heard, smell the rank odors that I smelt.

Let's begin!

Here's a sideways photo of Pilar on my first day in Quito. She and Jimmy took me on this very long hill up to a church. I had no idea where I was but later realized that I was in like landmark #1 of Quito. She says that this is a picture of the "virgincita" on the steps. Even then, I did not believe her. She has two children, after all. We walked to the bascillica and didn't go inside but admired all the gothic architecture outside. This is the church in Quito that you read about in guide books that has native animals instead of gargoyles guarding the church. It's really adorable, except some of the lizards and other skinny-torsoed animals have sort of started to crumble and the rebar is visable.

After the church, we walked to get ice cream and I was fixated on whether the ice cream had purified water in it. Only later would I know that a. freezing kills germs and b. I will have diarreah for the rest of my life. My wedding night, I will have dirreah. And I will still not know how to spell it.

Also, I ate some kind of purple ice cream called "mora." little did I know that a. that was a really bad example of mora ice cream and b. I would eat approximately 4 servings of mora every day. Also, I got diarreah a lot.

Later that day, I took a two hour nap and woke up gasping. It was embarrassing but sort of thrilling. We ate stir fry for lunch and I was so pleased that I hadn't been asked to eat huge steaks yet. Also, we had mora juice.

Looking back, besides that walk from the church to the store that sold ice cream, its very hazy in my mind. I remember the bright sky, the steep hills, and not being able to understand anything anyone said. I feel like I was reading lips for most of my information, Jimmy and Pilar's bright magenta from the mora.