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Princess (phase?)
How does it happen? How do young girls decide they like princesses? I mean, I know, media, Disney, but we’ve been trying to limit those influences. Jade has seen 4 movies so far in her 4 years of life: Incredibles, Incredibles 2, Monsters Inc, and Moana. She doesn’t watch any tv or videos on youtube. We’ve… Read more
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Piano recital
First piano recital, after which he said he wanted to keep taking piano forever. Then 2 weeks later he decided he wanted to stop taking lessons. But he did play while we sang Cumpleaños Feliz to Jade. Read more
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Chimborazo
On Sunday evening, Riki and I had the opportunity to attempt to summit the volcano Chimborazo, Ecuador’s tallest volcano at 20,534 feet. The summit of Chimborazo is also actually the closest point to the sun (closer than the summit of Everest), because of the bulge at the Earth’s equator. I wasn’t too sure about our… Read more
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El Paro Nacional
El paro means strike or stoppage, and it comes from the verb parar, to stop. It began on Thursday October 3rd, the day after President Lenin Moreno announced a “paquetazo” that stopped gasoline subsidies, cut government workers’ vacation in half & cut their pay as well. The paquetazo was created to comply with the International… Read more
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School ends and begins again
Tomu and Jade had an end of the year celebration at the Pumapungo Museum. Jade was overjoyed to wear the white dress they required, and was bummed that we only rented it. We found out in July that their school was closing because of a lack of funding from the Ministry of Education, so we… Read more
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Comings and Goings
I guess part of the expat life is making new friends, saying goodbye to them, and then making new friends again. Of course our Cuencano friends are still here, luckily! 🙂 June was a rough month for us, as first our Alaskan buddies moved back home on June 10th, and then our friends Steph &… Read more
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