Saturday, December 08, 2007

Quito Day Festival

Each class participated in a traditional dance of Ecuador. The kids were so cute. You could definitely tell who didn't have Latino blood in them.

Nicolas was very serious about his dancing.



Mikala and her 3 best friends.


Our new dog Cooper


Friday, December 07, 2007

Pictures from Banos

Storage Building for the Orphanage in Shell.
Kyle helping put on the roof to the storage building.

Jamie working on filling in pot holes on the road at the orphanage.

Nicolas and Eric also filling in holes.

Barney, Julie, Eric, Nick and MIkala at a waterfall outside of Rio Negro. It was a beautiful hike into the falls.

Mikala and I on the path to the waterfall.

Matt and Mikala on the same path.

Some of our group at another waterfall called Pilon del diablo (the devil's cauldron).
It is huge and very beautiful.

You can crawl through this path and actually touch the waterfall.

And one more falls. This one we took a ride on the tarabita below. It was pretty fun. It goes right over the falls.

On the tarabita
Sharayah taking the machete to the grass at the orphanage
Mikala working hard
Nicolas loved the machete