Chad's mom was able to visit us last week, thanks to our very generous church back home. She has been here before, but it had been a while. The kids LOVED having their Grandma's undivided attention. She's a great playmate!
The bummer was that she arrived late Friday night, we traveled back to Shell on Saturday (we picked her up in Quito, which is 4-5 hours away), and then on Sunday I proceeded to sprain my ankle while playing ultimate Frisbee. This is after talking about a friend's son who had sprained his the week before and I mentioned that I had never sprained an ankle! The great thing about the ordeal was that we play ultimate with mostly doctors. I even had a surgeon make a house-call to make sure I was ok. I'm not sure if he was being kind or if he felt bad that he was involved in my accident! Ok, maybe both! I can now attest to the fact that a sprained ankle is SUPER painful. All of this to say, I wasn't the best hostess for my mother-in-law. Thankfully Chad had already planned to take some vacation days - otherwise Annie wouldn't have had much fun with this couch potatoe!
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| This is the presidential "vacation" house on the military base. It might be a bit below US presidential standards! |
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| Inside the presidential house. |
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| I'm not sure what they were talking about....but it looks like the pig is MAD! |
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| This is the volcano Cotopaxi. Believe it or not I took this as we were speeding by. |
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| This is the beginnings of an Ecuadorian version of Mt. Rushmore...ok, just kidding. It's really a "controlled" landslide. There are track-hoes at the top making it slide. That's not a job I would want! |
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