Since we knew our time in Ecuador was ending shortly.. we wanted to make sure to capture a few shots of the people that greatly impacted our experience!
With Albita...Our Host Mom!
Marthy...Our Boss
For the rest of the "work week" I spent my time redesigning the CARE Ecuador website using this program called weebly.com. It is such an EASY program to use.. and that's exactly what they need at the office (since no one really has web development experience). Now the website can be updated more frequently than it has been in the past!
On Saturday Sharada & I decided to spend the weekend doing stuff around Quito (since we had spent all of our other weekends traveling). So we hung out with the Vela kids (the other students she knows from her school that are spending their summer in Ecuador volunteering). We went to the Banco Central Museum of Quito (incredibly boring), walked around town, tasted the most amazing brownies ever..and finally headed to Centro Historico to watch a celebration that was recommended to us by the museum security guard. At the risk of wrongly explaining what they were really celebrating, I'll just quote the website.. ""Quito will boast a feast of cultural, civic and folkloric events both in the historic centre and nearby parishes, to celebrate the Bicentenary of the Quito Revolution. The Bicentennial celebrations started last year commemorating 200 years of the “First Cry for Independence” (August 10th, 2009) and will continue thru 2012, in memory of several crucial events that lead the independence processes of the country and the whole continent!"
To celebrate they staged a reenactment of the actual Quito Revolution. Except unlike boring reannactments that I used to watch in high school history... this one was a musical! The sang, danced AND acted It was absolutely amazing! AND it was free! Free, cultural event... how could you pass that up?
My pictures doesn't do justice.. but here they are.
Part of the stage & set.
The full stage... just as they started to perform.
Fireworks after the show
Look how amazing Centro Historico is at night!
Sunday, Sharada and I headed to Teleferiqo (a ski lift type deal that takes you to the top of a mountain so you can see all of Quito). We were pretty excited because everyone raves about it after they go... Well, all of our excitement was crushed when we got to the top of the mountain and could only see pure, thick fog.
Oh well. We did try to make the best of it..and still walked a bit around the mountain. We found this church and these great crosses outside.. ( I love how the fog makes the crosses look)
And then we headed back.. where I took a few shots on the lift..
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