( Ongoing posts from diary of Grace, a lady boomer, living her life's adventure in a remote area of the Andes Mountains of Ecuador ) "On my first day back to Ecuador I had a big delivery to make. It was my God Daughter’s birthday, and I was in charge of bringing the cake. My friend Karen was with me, we had arrived in Quito the night before and hopped on the bus to Otavalo. It was around 10pm when we arrived at the bus station, but the driver told us to stay on the bus and he would drop us off at the Hostal Valle del Amanecer the hostle that I usually stay at. We had a crazy amount of luggage with us. American Airlines had changed there policy of extra luggage and were going to charge us $70each for the extra bags, but when we checked in there was no mention of extra money so we were very fortunate in that aspect. But, we had to carry the bags everywhere. 8 of them filed with used clothes and shoes that we had collected in Canada from our friends. We were up early and bought tickets for the 10am bus, and a beautiful birthday cake covered with fruit . Ramiro drove us to the bus stop in his pickup and helped us load the suitcases under the bus, and I put the cake on my knee... We arrived in Guacshi at 1pm. There were several people at the bus stop that helped us drag our suitcases through the rain to my house. We basically just dropped off the suitcases and put on our raincoats and headed across the swinging bridge in the rain carrying the cake. The family of God daughter, Narette was waiting, along with cousins, grandmother and aunts and uncles. We sang Happy Birthday to her with its one large candle and then as tradition in Ecuador was carried out she was to take a bite out of the cake. When she went to take a bite her mother pushed her face into the cake. She was a little shocked and I thought she was going to cry. But, as everyone else was laughing she did to. She was pleased with her Birthday Bunny, when we left with took cake with us for my adopted family at my farm as the children had been eying it when we left with it an hour before. " (Grace is the Project Administrator for Touch The Jungle in the Intag area of Ecuador www.touchthejungle.org ) For more extracts from Grace's Diary, look for them under Grace in the Alphabetical index on this site. Photos by Grace CommentsLeave a Reply | Click RSS Icon to automatically follow Andre's Blog.
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