So it's official, my dad and I are not going to be going to otovalo this trip; we're going to stay here for an extra week instead. We wanted to go, but there are two issues with this ( Read more... )

Today, my dad and I went to the Museo del Banco Central with someone my dad is friends with down here and her daughter. It was interesting because it was a museum, but it also had ruins outside, a botanical garden, and a whole bunch of parrots. I was kind of disappointed that we weren't allowed to take pictures inside, but I made up for it by ( Read more... )

I started freaking out today because I saw my bill for this semester of college and it's more than we had expected it to be. The plan is to use the money that my mom saved up to pay for what isn't covered by financial aid this year and to have the left over be used to start paying off my loans. With the way my dad and I had originally calculated ( Read more... )

My dad has been doing a lot of internet marketing stuff in the past few years and during our trip, he's been getting me started on it too. Since it takes a while to get a lot of traffic to a new website, he decided to give me one of his that he doesn't really work on any more. Of course, I was really excited about this because it's been giving him ( Read more... )

I'm so excited! I just finished watching the first episode of this season of Torchwood and it was pretty epic! I can't wait for the next episode to come out!!!

My mom has been trying to get me to transfer from my college to the one that she works at. She has good reasons for why I should do it, but there are many more reasons not to. One thing that she has in her favor is that that I wouldn't need to take out any loans because I'd be able to go there for free, which is very nice. The whole thing has been ( Read more... )

My dad and I went to the Inca Bar for lunch again today and ran into the usual bunch of gringos who were there for happy hour. My dad had met most of them before, but I hadn't so he ended up introducing me to some of them ( Read more... )

I really shouldn't be posting anything right now, since I promised my dad that I would try to start getting to be earlier (its 1:45 am in Cuenca right now), but whatever. We're almost positive that I have acute mountain sickness since I've experienced almost every single one of the symptoms in the last two or so weeks. Unfortunately, it includes ( Read more... )

Today, we decided to join some of the local gringos at the Inca Lounge (the restaurant that has the amazing tacos). Everything was fine for the majority of the walk there, though it did start raining a little at some part. Then, when we were about five minutes away from the restaurant, it decided to start hailing. And not little tiny pieces, but ( Read more... )