When I woke up in our Ecuadorian "resort" is Zamora it was 8:30am. I ended up accidentally waking up Hudson. We walked to breakfast and met up with Mr. and Mrs. Brumbarger. I had some very good eggs which were collected that morning! Mrs. Brumbarger had seen them milk the cows in the early morning and about two hours later we saw that milk get used in the process of making cheese! The cheese was so good and even had a sweet taste to it! Well, what I found out was that they feed the cows sugar cane and so part of the sugar gets into the milk! They let us taste the cheese and gave us some fresh papaya and pineapple jelly along with Dulce de Leche. They also had an awesome water slide that Tanner and Hudson went crazy over! There was a little 8year old boy who was scared to go down the water slide alone :( Juan Pablo took care of that! 

Our drive up to Manchala was pretty decent, however, there was a ton of fog that kept us from going at a normal speed. There has only been two instances that I have seen Jesus's name. One time in Saraguro when there was a woman reading My Upmost for His Highest in Spanish and on the side of a mountain which said, "Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life" in Spanish.

We got to Manchala and we got onto a boat and saw the mangroves. Really it’s just trees with long roots that go down into the water that stink and have trash surrounding them. One thing that I will tell you is that they are not always like that! What happened is 2 days before we went Manchala was under 2ft of water thus washing up all the trash that we saw, which was mostly plastic bottles.

After our quick day trip in Manchala we drove back to “base” in Cuenca. Hudson, Amanda, and I have all become really good rummy players! Amanda usually goes down last but mostly goes out first! It makes me so mad because I usually go down first. After some dinner and a few more card games we went to bed so that we could get up in time to tour Cuenca!

Cuenca--"First Day" (Etapa--before all the jungle adventures and our ending Cuenca touring days...right after we got off of the plane in the morning...you can imagine how tired we were!)

Look at that view! (It was a smelly water facility though...the view didn't make up for the smell fully!)