Saturday, October 31, 2009

October at the Centre of the Earth

In October we:
bought some sweet Ecuadorian wheels (circa 1981), taught with no electricity (there was a cowbell though), and celebrated my birthday with 3 cakes and flaming sushi (thanks for all the birthday wishes from afar)!
We also enjoyed delicious guaguas de pan and colada morada (a hot sweet fruit drink) at a school fiesta for Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead),
soaked in thermal hot springs in Papallacta, and explored the 'middle of the world' just outside of Quito.


Note the streamers of bras suspended from the Mitad de Mundo monument (for a breast cancer event). A nice touch!

Anyway, it's been a great month and we're looking forward to many more!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Those cookies look like gingerbread -mmmmmm delicious.
Do you lose power very often????
Love the car - deja vu for me - Dad had the exact same one back in the 60's. It was closed in underneath and so he could drive it over the snow banks and many tmies when he had to get to work in a storm, that's exactly what he did.

doreen dillon said...

that last comment was from me - Doreen d.

Anonymous said...

Wonderful photos of the car and our grand-dog!We are so looking forward to seeing it all in person at Easter.

Hugs, Mom and Dad