Bus, Taxis and Birthdays

Well, Darlene and I have taken turns at missing activities this week due to, uh well, internal issues.

She missed a day of class and i missed the "get to know the Quito transport system-Amazing Race" game yesterday. But, we think we are both on solid ground again. Darlene's team came in 3rd in the "tour de transportation modes" for NILI students yesterday....she was teamed up with a US college student of ample height and girth, and a Ecuadoran seminary student who is quite slight of stature. When they came to the paddleboat-across -the -lake phase of the tour, they lost a good bit time because of steering problems due to load distribution. :) Dar said that dropped them out of second place.

Today, following church, we were on our own for lunch....for some reason I was served (and charged for) two hot dogs to go with my fried chicken dinner. I don't even know the word for hot dog in spanish so I could not have ordered that, even if I had wanted to.....when I tried to return the hot dogs and get refunded, they told me it was included for "take out "so i gave up. So, it was fried chicken and hot dogs for Miguel.

We were invited to a birthday party for the 10 yr old daughter of a seminary student this afternoon. One nice difference is that such an event is a family/community event...not just for the kids. People of various ages attended. I pointed out to Darlene that it seemed that we were the oldest folks there, except for the grandma of the honoree.....and that was questionable, too. Darlene pretended to ignore my observation.