Here is Oaxaca

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Here is Oaxaca
Here is Ecuador
Guayaquil is where the airport is and Cuenca is
where the wedding was.
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In Guayaquil, the largest city in Ecuador, a park
is full of iguanas. We also hiked to the top of t
hese steps. Can you guess how many there are?
Then we got in our own bus and we drove over the
mountains to Cuenca, where Adela grew up. Thats
Adela on the right and her friend Femia, who is
from Indonesia but lives in California.
I got my hair done on the beach near Guayaquil
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Adelas neighbor Joanna played and sang for us.
In Cuenca we stayed at Adelas moms house.
Also in the house were Adelas grandmother, and
her two nieces, Natalia and Amy.
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María and Meli and I went to a swimming pool
where the water is hot because it comes from deep
inside the earth.
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Lucio and I tried on hats but we didnt buy one.
These hats are called Panama hats but they are
made in Ecuador.
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Camila and Belen and I threw seeds down at the
boys
My cousin Mary is showing the bananas we bought
in the market.
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I ordered Caulafán. It is like fried rice and it
was really huge!
In Cuenca many people wash their clothes in the
river and dry them on the grass.
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I took a class and created a work of art.
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Here are a lot of Mark and Adelas friends and
family who came to the wedding.
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The Inca people lived in Ecuador before the
Europeans came. They built walls better than
anyone in Europe could do at that time.
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Here are Adelas mother Elsa and her Grandmother
Rosa.
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Here comes the bride!
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My job at the wedding was to bring in the rings
on a special pillow.
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Were married!
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I wrote a toast to Mark and Adela, and my mom
read it to them in front of everyone at the
reception (200 people!). I wrote it in Spanish
and she read it in English and Spanish. Lucio
got bored.
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My mom and I got our hair done for the wedding.
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FIREWORKS! And thats my dad carrying around th
e vaca loca with fireworks going off from it.
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After the wedding we took a bus to a big party in
San Bartolome, where Adelas grandfather and
grandmother were born. But the bus was too bi
g for the roads, so we walked the last part.
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At the party we ate guinea pig, which is quite
popular in Ecuador, and we helped cook.
Papa Sandy is stirring the big pot, and we helped
a bit on the tamales and sausage.
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Meanwhile, there was plenty for the kids to do.
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Finally it was time for my family to say goodbye
and hurry off to the airport.