Ecuador Day 43

Devin decided to come up with another rhyme for you today. "Day 43 and here we still be." Isn't that man such a creative genius?

 Last night was a little rough-- Jace woke up about 9 covered in his throw-up and Hallie also threw up in the night. What is going on, I have no idea. Both woke up fine this morning. We planned on staying in all day, but since they were acting fine and we were all feeling very cooped up, we decided to go out.

We have been wanting to go to Teleferiqo the entire time we have been here,but every time we have it planned, it rained. So, today we finally got the chance to go. What do you know-- it started to drizzle on our taxi ride there. Luckily, by the time we got there, the weather was back to being sunny and beautiful. Teleferiqo is a cable car that goes to the top of a large peak, giving you a really pretty view of the whole valley.

We got in line for our tickets and the lady behind the window was feeling especially generous as she gave us buy an adult, get a child free. She told us it was a special for the day, but I am pretty sure she was just being nice. However, when we got in the line to board a car, the ticket taker would not let us past because apparently you have to be 18 months old to ride the cable cars and I guess Jace didn't pass for that. She gave us some spiel about the altitude and his ears. So turned away we were. Luckily, the nice lady at the window refunded our money.

All was not lost as just below the Teleferiqo is an amusement park with all sorts of rides. So, we opted to do that instead. We were unsure if the place was even open as there were about two people in site. But, it was open and having so few people there made it all the better. We basically went to whichever rides we wanted and the workers followed us and let us right on. We also played a fair few arcade games (Devin even won two dog stuffed animals- I think winning is easier here than in the states. All he had to do for each of those is to make a basket from 10 feet away. His high school basketball skills came in handy there).

Poor Flor-- she was just so tired the whole time, she could barely enjoy herself. Any opportunity she had, she laid her head on chair, on a lap, or on the floor. I don't know what is going on, but she must not be feeling well still. She also rejected dinner again- a classic sign that something is up. After all, her two loves in life (that we know so far) are food and Barney. Hmm. It is sad to me that I can't tell what is going on. Unlike Hallie, who tells you repeatedly that she doesn't feel well and asks for medication or anything she believes to be medication (altoids at this point) or Jace who cries and whines, Flor is silent in her pain. She obviously can't tell us what is going on, but she doesn't cry or act sick really either, other than to act more tired and to refuse food. Poor girl. She took a two hour nap this afternoon, but was ready for bed again right at 6 when we got home. So, we'll see I guess.

All in all, we had a really great afternoon. Getting out after a day inside is always a good remedy to lift my spirits and to make it seem like the days are going faster.

No news on the Adoption Decree yet. Maybe tomorrow. We can only hope!

And now, a bunch of pictures from our afternoon out.

The ride that wasn't to be for us. Oh well...

They had this really cool bubble thing that I have never seen before. Basically, they blow a huge bubble up with air and let the kids roll around and play on top of the water. Hallie really wanted to try it- that is until she got in. Then she started bawling hysterically, so this is as far as she made it. Oh well. The guy was really nice about it and let us ride a different ride for free instead. She just had to pick one of those spinny rides and insisted that I go with her. UGh...

On said spinny ride

Our view of the other three from a top the ride

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See what I mean? Poor Flor.

Again. Poor Flor.

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Flor actually loves jumping on trampolines, so we let her and Hals go into this tramp to jump. She clearly didn't love it this time...

...Hallie on the other hand enjoyed it immensely

A view of the city from the amusement park. Just imagine it another few thousand feet up and that is what it would have been from the top of Teleferiqo.