Bye bye mom! What a great seven weeks! She woke up this morning feeling much better so we were both extremely happy about this! Even though the last two days of her trip were not ideal, she felt healthy enough to fly home. We took a taxi to the airport a little later than we would've had liked, but she checked into her flight no problems and before you knew it I had to leave otherwise I would miss the night bus to Cuenca. It was sad to see her go but we had one ...

Hospital or not??? She still wasn't feeling that well but wasn't feeling bad enough to go to the hospital! I went to the pharmacy and picked up some stuff to hopefully make her tummy feel better and in the end she decided to not go to the hospital and we just relaxed most the day. In a country that loves soccer so much I was surprised to see this funny photo in our hotel so I took a picture of it.

Back to Quito, market in the park and tummy issues.... We made it back to Quito no problems can checked into our hotel. We headed to the big park where we had seen a small market set up the previous day, realizing we had a bit of room left in the luggage I wanted to find a nice alpaca blanket for myself and we did!!! Yay!!! Mom also bought a nice jacket. In the afternoon mom felt quite sick and stayed in bed most of the afternoon and evening. The street food ha...

Teleferico and Virgen de la Carrill When we woke up it was a little bit cloudy but by the time we had breakfast the clouds had lifted from the Teleferico so we seized our opportunity and headed up the volcano in a very steep cable car before the clouds came back. It was a pretty great experience and the views were breathtaking. There was a man up there playing traditional music with flutes so we bought two CDs and I bought flute thingy. He tried to rip me off ...

Mitad de Mundo During breakfast I watched a 1:30 video of hockey or something and the owner who apparently I annoyed interrupts me and says "Can I offer you a pair of headsets" while dangling them in front of my face.... It pretty much left me speechless because below the restaurant was a sawmill operation with really loud saws. Mom and I had a pretty good laugh over it while we talked loudly to each other to overpower the saws..... Anyway..... We were off to ...