Indiana Youth Group!

Yesterday we had a seven oclock breakfast and left for Shell. The drive is 5 hours without any stops...so basically it was an all day trip. On the way there we stopped and climbed an eight story tree house, played with a monkey, and went on a cable car over a gorge and waterfall...freaking awesome! We finally got to our resort and it was reallly nice. We had dinner when we got there and then we swam around and had chicken fights in the pool. after tiring ourselves out we relaxed in the sauna and hot tub.

Today we ate breakfast at the hosteria and then left for Puyo. We stopped at the balsa wood store, everything was really cheap :). From there we went to a really cool waterfall. We climbed across a bridge over the rapids and then climbed under it. We all got totally soaked, we had to crawl through the side of the cliff the waterfall was on to get to the best spot..you could stick your hand in the waterfall. Basically, it was SAWEET. We all walked back to the bus and changed and then drove home. We stopped by the guest house to change and then went to Spaghetti, a really high end restaurant(we all had a craving for italian). We had a nice crying circle around jeff and chelsea and then packed and went to bed...we have to be on the bus at 5:30 tomorrow!!!


Absolute last blog from Ecuador..soo sad. :(

See you tomorrow!

Last Work related update from katherine :)

So my dad had some extra time today cuz he stayed home with the sickies, but i will inform those out there as to the work we were doing. A couple people went to the dump daycare and helped out finishing the painting and then went back before lunch to the church(they needed more people there). We had pizza for lunch and then finished up all the painting projects. After that we went to the Quito market and shopped around a little...not quite as cool as the Otavalo market though. We then went to Crepes and Waffles for dinner because everyone loved it the first time. After that we all went back to the guest house and just hung out, card games and such.

Tomorrow we have breakfast at seven so we can leave for Shell. The trip is five hours WITHOUT stops!

I cant promise we'll get a connection in Shell, so just know were having fun on the edge of the rain forest!

Scenes from Ecuador

Here are just a couple photos of our lives in Ecuador.

City Dump and Church Work

The students are hard at work at the daycare center at Quito's city dump, and at a local Covenant church in Quito. Only a couple of minor health issues -- which require a bathroom nearby -- but other than that the group is doing a fantastic job. They are hard workers with servants' hearts. Tomorrow we are off to Banos and Shell -- for some fun times.