December 31, 2014 Cuenca, Ecuador – A Cuencan New Year’s It’s just 9:00pm and we are back from downtown Cuenca with a quick NYE report. First, it feels like there are more effigies out there than people! It’s just crazy, with a wonderful festive vibe – definitely not as creepy as we originally felt. Cuencans
December 24, 2014 Cuenca, Ecuador – Pase del Niño Viajero (Passing of the Traveling Child Parade) All travel blogs seem to say something like “…try to participate in local festivals”. Well, allow us to join the crowd! When we arrived at our house-sit ten days ago, the folks we are sitting for told us about
December 24, 2014 Cuenca, Ecuador – Pase del Niño Viajero (Passing of the Traveling Child Parade) – A Highlight! At one point while watching the parade (easily 6+ hours after the start) we saw that a very special float was coming. It was the most elaborate and perhaps most beautiful float in the parade –
December 20, 2014 Cuenca, Ecuador – The WHAT??!! Fruit: A Quick Post We were introduced to the WHAT??!! Fruit back in Costa Rica but haven’t seen much of them since. Then we noticed a whole bag of them left for us by the owners of the house we are caring for (thanks Holly and Brian!).
December 18, 2014 Cuenca, Ecuador – Guayaquil: A Quick Post Guayaquil, Ecuador was originally only a quick stop for us, but Anner got sick there, so it ended up being a bit longer than we expected (3 days instead of only overnight). Thus, this quick post is all me! It was kind of a 2-part