Airport trip

Stella loving the fish in the ponds at the airport. We didn't end up going anywhere, we almost did but we weren't able to catch the flight we wanted...maybe tomorrow.

Getting my visa...

This is poor Stella standing outside another office waiting for one of us to fill out more paperwork. I'm trying to get another visa because my tourist visa expires in February and for some reason there's always one more thing we need to do or another document we need to get... It's a little frustrating.

Local food

Today Stella tried fried yuca w/ a cheesy center and loved it. In the picture below she is eating a plantain that is mashed and then they add cheese. Then it's molded into the shape of a ball and fried. She seemed to like that too. The other pic is her cousin Joshua eating an Empanada... One of my personal favorites.

My little bookworm

Fun in the sun

New Year's Day walk

Stell and I went out Wednesday morning for a walk and it was so quiet. A lot of people in Guayaquil celebrate New Years at the beach and so I'm sure many were out of town and the rest were still sleeping. It was so awesome!!!An 

Happy New Years

The first picture is taken from a lookout over the city. Jorge and I went to watch the city firework show at 10 last night. Unfortunately our view was ubstructed by a large hill but we were able to see a ton of other fireworks going off all over the rest of the city. The other pictures are of ano viejo, which the peoe burn as a symbol of the previous year. It used to be that people would burn fake people but now they make all different kinds of them. I saw probably every Disney character, super hero, and muscle man you could think of as ano viejos. I was with Stella at midnight because all the fireworks & firecrackers were crazy loud and it woke her up. She handled it really well I thought she might be really scared but she wasn't I think she was just more surprised by all the sounds she could hear outside. Of course once she was awake it was so hard to get her back to sleep. Happy new year!!!! 

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