Sunday

Wow, that last post was a little messy. That is mostly due to the fact that while I was typing it we realized that we had already been called to board our plane, but they only called us in Spanish. I was in a hurry.

We landed in Quito at about 10 p.m. (Ecuador time) and struggled our way through customs. Then we met up with our ride, Stu, who works at Alliance Academy (the school where mom will be teaching her class). He's super nice. He took us to the guest house that we are staying at and helped us with our bags. When we got to our room door he messed with the lock. We opened the door and SURPRISE(!) there were two men in there laying on (separate) beds watching TV. Yes, in our room. So Stu talked to them and told them that that was where we were supposed to be staying. They moved to another room (apparently one of them was the woman who owns the guest house's son, so he had a key to all of them). After that ordeal Stu gave us an idea of what mission work we would be doing this week. I can't remember all of the days (because I had only gotten 3 hours of sleep over a period of about 40 hours at that time) but tomorrow and Wednesday we will be babysitting at the dump. What does that mean? Well, some of the people in the city go to the dump to collect things that they think they might be able to sell or recycle for money, so we will be going to watch their kids while they work. Sad and amazing. I will definitely blog on that tomorrow.

We went to church this morning at Atucucho (literally, a city on a hill...or side of a mountain). It was a Spanish speaking service so I could pick up some words and phrases here and there but not much more. I found out that Lady Villa (my Compassion kid) lives ACROSS THE STREET from that church and the school that we're helping at on Thursday. There was a kid at the church who "helped" in the praise band. Really, he carried morracas and sang into them like they were microphones (hopefully I will be able to post a video). He then set next to Kellye because he had a huge crush on her. So cute!

We went to lunch with the pastors of the church afterwards at KFC which was an interesting experience because neither of them spoke much English. Then a translator came and took us to the market where we scored some pretty awesome deals. I got hippie earrings! So excited!

We then came back to the guest house and went to the grocery store to get some random food for dinner (what ended up being Pringles, Fruit Loops, and sweet rolls...there isn't much in the store). After we ate we took a marvelous 4 HOUR NAP!!! Since we woke up (about 1 1/2 hours ago) we talked to the fam online.

So far that's what we've done. I'm super excited about playing with the kids (and babies!) tomorrow! Pictures to come!

Love you, friends.