Week 2

Hey Everyone! Hope all is well in the United States. I just wanted to give you all an update on what's been happening here. This week has been VERY busy. We visited the rose farm and got to seem some wonderful snow topped mountains on the way. We also went on a private tour of the Historic Old Quito City. Our tour guide was amazing and is currently composing the new history of Quito book. We got to see things that normal tourists don't see because this guy had private access to everything. We went to three churches from 6:30-10:30 pm. We were the only people there. The experience in some of these churches was actually emotional. We climbed several different types of very dangerous and obviously not safe by US regulations sets of stairs to get to the top of the bell tower in one of the churches. This tower marked the center of the city that separated the Indians from the Spaniards and the architecture was unbelievable. In these churches everything is made of gold and all of the paint on the walls is made from flowers. I am still in awe o the things that I was fortunate enough to see. The pictures do not upload well onto here because of slow internet and some computer issues that Hernan is having. They are on Facebook for those of you who have it and if you don't, just remind me and I can send you an invitation to view the pics with your email address. I miss you all and will see you in a couple weeks! LOVE YOU!