Weekend Fun!!!

Time to blog again! I can't believe it's already been two weeks since our last post! The three of us have been pretty busy which makes the time go by fast!

So I'm going to attempt to post pictures on this post--should be pretty easy, right? Ha-I hope so.

This past Saturday the four of us (us girls and Maria) hopped on the 8am bus and made our way to Ambato! It's a city about 2 1/2 hours from Shell where some of Maria's family live. It was her granddaughter's birthdays so we were able to celebrate with them and see the city.

Ashley and Kristin on the bus.

The bus system is great here but definitely not for weak stomachs. The roads are pretty bumpy, very curvy and the drivers can be pretty fast sometimes. Poor Ashley got a little motion sick.

In Ambato Maria gave us a mini walking tour of a few parks, markets and a mini museum!

Walking around the city

An indoor market. Also where Maria bought our Chicken for lunch!

One of the many parks

There was live music in one of the parks in Ambato! :-)

After our walking tour we headed back to Maria's family's home for some amazing lunch and birthday cake!! The pictures from that are on Ashley's camera...so you'll have to bug her to see them :-) Before heading back to Shell we had one more stop-Maxi-Mart!! An amazing wall-mart type store in Ambato. whoohoo
The bus ride back was little more crowded and the driver was a little more jerky. To say the least, Ashley's stomach did not like her that night... I'll let her expand on that adventure... :-)

SUNDAY!

After church on Sunday Kristin and I had lunch with our friend Daniela and then the three of us and our friend Katrin jumped on another bus. During the day we ended up seeing two mini zoos, had yummy Ecuadorian ice cream and then had dinner at a nice Italian place in Puyo (the next town over).

Daniela, Kristin and Katrin waiting for the bus

At the zoo!!

And that was our exciting weekend!!

I'll hopefully post another entry soon to update you on spanish and the hospital. I'm hoping I may have an opportunity to work in the jungle next week with a few missionaries who are doing a study on diabetes! :-) I'll keep you posted!

Much love to you all!
-Kim