Puerto Quito...

This is at puerto quito on our way back to quito... just thought i'd take a litle video and show you all a little more..

more pics from guayaquil...

these are from sunday again.. on our way home. last set of pics. I promise!


on our way home we stopped at this little watermelon tienda.. it was very good! muy jugoso!


this place really made me think of my mom and little brother luke because they both love watermelon..


this place also had lots of bananas as well.. this is Patricio, Ricardo, and our bus driver. (don't know his name)


dentro del bus!


this one is mainly for my boys overseas.. brought back a lot of memories! "that water is as cold as san franciso water!" this is at a place called Puerto Quito.. about 3 hours outside of Quito..


this is jose.. he is a really nice guy.. he's actually one of the few youth who went that I could always understand! he doesn't talk that fast..


another of me..i didn't realize those two guys were in the background!



some of the guys.. notice the guy in the red shorts giving the thumbs up.. everyone here does that! its really weird bc nobody really still does that back home.. unless your name is peyton..

guayaquil once more...

some more pictures! these are all from sunday, the day we left. we went to this area near the malecon to sightsee.. it was pretty cool. enjoy!


I'm really not sure what the name of this area is. but we had to walk up i think 530 stairs! and this was first thing in the morning, like around 7:00ish!


everyone walking up the stairs... this is right at the beginning, but im pretty sure everyone was already tired!


a view of guayaquil while ascending up the stairs...


another view...


this is for all my family..i had to take a picture with this cannon.. it reminded me being on mainstreet u.s.a. in disneyland! (this was on top of the place where we were climbing to)


also on top, there was this nice, but small catholic church..


inside the church...


we had a brief impromptu time of worship/devotional here.. it was amazing. Pastor Patricio read some scripture and we all sang "How Great Thou Art" and ""Because He Lives." it was in spanish, but i just sang along in english...but it was a powerful time of worship.


after singing we met these two jewish type ppl.. i say that bc they weren't exactly fully jewish. it was a weird encounter.. i couldn't really understand everything they were saying..


one more for mommy! (ginger, don't you love my hair?!)

more guayaquil...

i just felt compelled to take this random picture of this street.. this is near the malecon..


on saturday afternoon i went with patricio to this market place. there were so many things it was so crazy! he was looking for a gift for his kids.. it was fun watching him barter with ppl..


this is right outside where the conference was. this man made keychains with inscriptions on them.. here he is making me one for someone special..


there was a cultural night on saturday where every group was supposed to do something to represent their country.. our group decided to do a little drama. this is them practicing on the malecon.. they didn't get to finish because a police officer wasn't to happy we were there..


a parade honoring the fire department...(me and patricio)


at the conference.. an altar call..


this was during the cultural night.. not sure what group this was or where they were from, but they did this loooooooooong skit/play and apparently there was a witch in it. i couldn't really understand what they were saying, so i took a little snooze!


this picture is a little unclear, sorry. this is our group doing their drama thingy..


our group that came from the surrounding quito area..

guayaquil again...

some more pics...



this is ricardo again.. instead of cleaning this time, he took it upon himself to make everyone a snack..


this was saturday afternoon when our bus driver was trying to park, and there wasn't enough room. these fellas' helped out and pushed about 6 cars out of the way! only in ecuador!


just a random sidewalk..this is where those guys moved those cars..


while everyone else was eating me and two other guys who werent hungry went walking around sightseeing.. we stopped by this grocery store first. thought i'd add it just for my dad..grocery stores remind me of my dad..


this is called the malecon.. it's a boardwalk that has tons of activities, games, restaurants, and other things..


not really sure why i took this picture.. i think it was peer pressure..


these are two guys from the youth group.. carlitos on the left and reuben on the right. reuben is the kid who likes to act..


this was right after we took the last picture.. carlitos and reuben insisted for some reason that i take a pic on the back of this train with these kids who were already there.. kinda random!


this is a statue/monument of two military leaders who lead the rebellion against the spainards way back in the day.. one of their names is simon bolivar, don't remember the other, sorry! look it up!


another pic of the malecon..

Guayaquil pics!

Hey guys! I have so many pictures from this past weekend when i went to guayaquil for the youth rally. stay tuned for a lot more pics over the next few days. i even have a short video coming too! enjoy!


we left at about 12:30 friday morning... this is us pulling out of the parking lot


this was friday morning at the university of guayaquil (where the conference was). this is a pier that had a lot of places to eat..


on our way to go eat breakfast!


this is the view right out from where we ate breakfast..


this is on a bridge that leads to where we ate. i think this is one of the main roads in guayaquil in the back..


this is at the house we stayed at. this is Ricardo. he has such a servant's heart. there were lots of dirty dishes in the sink, and he immediately went and cleaned them all. when i asked him why he was cleaning he said, "because it's a way to serve everyone."


friday afternoon we went swimming at this pool.. we pretty much had it all to ourselves...


i went wondering around while ppl were swimming, and came across this ostrich! i thought it was a pretty funny pet..if it is a pet, could be dinner in the future!


this kid in the middle is really big into acting and drama.. he put on an a little drama and improvised everything. from what i could understand, it looked pretty funny..


this is a river that was behind where we were swimming..


one of the youth pointed out this iguana.. i'm pretty sure i've never seen one in person before. this was at the pool still..

and again...

some more pics from last thursday...mainly from carolina park..


this is a little mexican food joint that my teacher spotted. he insisted that i try something to see if it compares to back home...

this was the burrito i had, which to me, looks more like a taco...oh well..it wasn't bad... but it's really no ochoa's or little sombrero's!


a walkway in carolina park. prior to this day i had only been here once, and that was just to play basketball so i really didn't see anything.. this park is really big..and nice..


a little "lagoon," that has paddle boats...


can't wait to try these with you nin ner! (and mom)


this is a statue of a condor..its the ecuadorian national symbol..


another walkway...thought it looked cool..


ok, so lately there have been a lot of pics of me.. the reason is, peyton told me he wanted more of me.. so, here u go pey pey!


another angle of the lagoon...


you can see here some of the running trails that go throughout the park...