Haley's super Ecuador trip 08!

Guayaquil!! etc, video at the end.jk no video at the end... sorry

2008-11-10T05:19:00.000-08:00

The stairs up to the lighthouse!

Thats how many stairs we had to go up to get to the lighthouse.

On the way...

The view on the walkway!

The random pirates ship!

The iguana´s loved me!

Iguana just chillin!

I have a thing with the iguana´s!

I loved those iguana´s!

Temple grounds!!!

..... continued

On a double decker bus!!

That was at the iguana park and yes that is actually a bird on my hand eating cracker crumbs!!

The birds and iguana´s like to hang out and sometimes the birds give the iguana´s massages!

That would be the temple.

Yes that iguana is eating a cracker from my mouth. He literally climbed up on me while i was standing cause i was holding a cracker so i sat down. It was awesome!

Guayaquil was a blast!! We went to the temple and did baptisms... went to lunch, to an iguana park, a walkway by the ocean, and a lighthouse!!! Sorry this just an overview, i have tons more pics but the computer as usual is being retarted so you will just have to wait till i get home!! love you all!

Papallacta, soccer game, concert, and basillica and a video (all in random order, sorry.)

2008-10-15T07:09:00.000-07:00

Just a pretty view on our hike.
Almost done with the hike.
Dad i want these flowers in our backyard!
The Jungle.
Those blue hearts represent people who have gotten hit by a car and died in that exact spot!

Yep thats Papallacta.
In the Jungle.
I'm a jungle woman.
By one of the hot springs!
I told you i'm a jungle woman... thats a freaken vine!

Me!! The field in the back!
That is a volcano at papallact!
The river at papallacta.
That would be one of the natural springs pools and it is warm!!
On the hike in the jungle at papallacta!!

That window is huge!!!
In the van with everybody!!! we were squished!!
Alicia, Aanni, And haley!!
Yes we had to climb ladder things that were straight up and down to get to the top of the basillica!
Me and Aanni at the soccer game!

Me and tori with the basillica in the back.
Posing!
A place inside the basillica... its like a little hallway to a tiny window.
And there it is in a different view.
That was like the very top of the basillica by the bell.

Yep Ecuador won!
Me and alicia.
In the basillica!! David and Alicia and me!
Basillica
Yep i fell inside the basillica.

Me, Alicia, Megan, Aanni, Tori, y Hillary at the soccer game against chilli picking the finalists for the world cup!
The field.
This is shopping with Annalise we like making new friends... that guy wanted our phone numbers.
Chillin at the concert.
Me and Aanni messing around at the concert.

Hope you guys enjoyed!! I love you all! Leave me comments por favor!!

Equator pics

2008-09-29T09:48:00.001-07:00

THis is one of the little girls at the Day care.
And a little boy...
And another little girl..
She is gorgeous!! Her eyes were mucho bonita.. which means pretty..
Me and the gorgeous girl again.. THe day car was a blast the kids were so cute!! They were very shy though.. there not used to seeing white girls.

That is at a place we stopped at before the equator.. its gorgeous.

Same place.. THat is volcano´s all around as well.
Those were two adorable dogs mooching for our chips!!
That was just some random building i took a picture of.

THis is all of us on the equator line on top of the world!!
This is at the museum that is basically the equator they told us this is where they would bury the royal people like kings and stuff and when they died they would put there whole family in it with them.. basically bury them alive but that was a happy good thing for them.
THis is a baby spider that you will find in the amazon... a BABY!! SICK!!
This is a real shrunken head... They would shrink peoples heads after they died. Especially the royal kings and stuff.
This is a sweet llama with blue eyes!! I liked him alot!

This would be the statue thats over the whole city!! Its an angel and she is stepping on a dragon thing that represents the devil.. so basically its saying she´s protecting everybody. She´s huge!! and kinda creepy! haah
THis is just a picture of the city.. i thought it was a pretty sweet picture!
Umm.. yeah i ate a piece of that.. and that would be guinea pig!! DISGUSTING!!
That is right on the equator... its an egg balancing on a nail!! Pretty crazy.
Thats me ON TOP OF THE WORLD!!!

And thats about all i got!! Love you All.

The equator!

2008-09-29T09:38:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody this week was great!! We went to the equator!! On the way to the equator we stopped at a day care... we got to take pictures and we get to post them of the kids because there not orphans!! So here are some pics of our day at the equator and some other places!

Fiesta Cont.

2008-09-23T17:07:00.000-07:00

That would be the Fondue platter... the flowers are pineapples. We dug into that!!
That would be me and Tori.
Haha typical me, then next to me is megan and tori!

This is a guy from the band that came!!
This is a lady that sang for Angel and Jenny for there birthday.
And again..
THe flippin coolest trumpet player for the band! He is short too, kinda reminds me of my padre!! haha
The lady on the far right is Jenny, then its Angel and his mom... and i have no idea who the other lady is.

This is with Angel... I love him. He is the man of the house!
Yes i know i look retarted but the hat is flippin amazing!!

THis is at the Fiesta.. As you can tell Thats Sor Maritsa in the middle with the hat thing!!

Thats about all i have for the Fiesta!! I will get pics up of the Otavolo trip and all that later! Hope you enjoyed! Ciao

2008-09-23T16:59:00.000-07:00

THis is the start of the Quito tour! Were on a bridge.

Fiesta!

2008-09-23T15:56:00.000-07:00

Hey!! So this last week was fun.. i finally know how to put pictures up so i will get them on probably by tomorrow!! So on Friday we had a fiesta!! It was Angel´s and Jenny´s birthday, which are our parents basically. And we had about 60 people here!! It was insane! Even Sor Maritsa.. the nun of our orphanage was here except she didn´t dance. haha. A couple of the workers were here as well. ANd us girls got our groove on!! In Ecuador at parties there is no such thing as not dancing. We watched a couple of dances by some people, a lady sing, and a flippin band!! THey had sombrero´s and everything. And in the pics you will see soon, you will notice that they like to share them with us too! It was awesome. WE had some really good cake as well.. but i miss my ice cream! Anyways i´m going to get pictures on to tell you more about it.. but theres a start!! Love you all!! Check again tomorrow!
Ciao, Ciao!

Field trip and sites!

2008-09-16T14:18:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody!! First off i wanna say that i need to figure out how to put pictures on the computer cause just my memory card won´t work... Anyways i will as soon as possible. So I had a request to tell you all more about the orphanages i work in so here i go...

First is SVP that is our main orphanage that we go to. Its a baby orphanage. It consists of sala uno, sala dos, and sala tres. Sala uno consists of newborns to 6 months of age. There is 5 babies in there.. all girls except one boy. In sala uno we basically feed, change, put in a different position, or just love them. We can´t hold them too much cause the workers don´t want the babies to get too attatched and used to being held but everyonce in a while, and of course when feeding and burbing. WE also do therapies with the older babies, just to get there muscles going. And we play with them of course. They are all very cute.

Next is Sala dos the ages of these ninos(kids) are about 7 months to a year. There is about 7 kids i think and all girls. My favorite is a little black girl named susanna oooo i just squeeze her everytime. Anyways there all adorable. So basically there learning to crawl and walk. WE interact alot with these kids since there in a very important stage. There is a room especially for them where there is bouncers lots of toys etc. We also do therapies with them like working there back muscles and legs, and working on there walking. We take them outside in a little covered patio where they can play as well. Sopa is soup and we feed them that everyday. Ecuadorians feed kids alot and make them eat everything... so this gets a little frustrating cause most kids HATE eating, but there are a couple ones that are good.

Last is Sala tres. The ages of these kids are 1 to 2 years of age. In this sala there are about 13 kids and there crazy!!!! In this sala we play play play, there is a field outside that we go to and a playground thing. WE also take them on walks to other places like a little park or even just a parking lot. They also have a room to play in but they don´t do well playing inside all the time. These kids also need discipline, they are crazy and love to kill eachother!! It gets hard and sometimes you wanna just wring there neck... but we never do cause there still adorable!! We also feed these guys sopa and it sucks.. its super hard and sometimes the workers just take them from you because they can feed them better and personally i like when they do cause it is HARD. Like one time i was feeding Fransisco or Franky haha and he is huge!! Anyways i had a small spoon and wasn´t filling it very much and fast. So he threw a tantrum i had no idea what his deal was, so another girl settled him down and told me to use a bigger spoon and bigger spoonfulls and faster because the way the culture is he feels like he´s not getting enough food and fast enough. I thought that was kindof interesting funny. Franky is the biggest chunk ever and he just waddles around. We change there diapers, and there just the normal diapers we use. There fun little buggers to be around and some of there backgrounds are really rough, but they are the happiest kids ever ( besides when there beating eachother up).

So thats SVP and its a blast to be with these kids but it is nice to go to other places like...

SL, SL is basically an apt complex run by nuns. There are about 5 different "families" that are taken care of by "moms". What we do is go play or do different activities with these families for about 20 minutes each. Some of these kids are brothers and sisters. And they range in age. We only go there about 3 times a week and not everybody goes.. we trade off. I love SL, and the kids are adorable!! Gabby is my all time fav... ugh she has the cutest smile and just laughs all the time. I think shes´about two years old.. shes just a little runt! And she gives me pesos which is kisses i love it!!

Another main site we go to is SKG´S & SKB´S which is special kids boys and special kids girls. I would love to tell you about that site... but i haven´t been there yet, so i will be sure to tell you about it when i go.

So those are the main sites or orphanages we do. They are a blast and i´m learning spanish more and more everyday. Its fun and i love the kids here!! There have the cutest personalities and are just rambunctious!!

Field trip to otavolo!!! So basically this was a blast!! The place was beautiful!! It was about 2 hours away from Quito and its a huge huge shopping market where you can just bargain bargain bargain. I loved it!! There was sooo much it was crazy!! So on the way there we stopped at this gas station that has places to take pictures of the scenery cause its gorgeous, and there was even llamas by this lady you pay to take pictures with!! I gave the lady two dollars and she loved me!! i felt good about it. So i got pictures with the llamas!! haha they are the funniest animals, i also pet some really cute puppies this lady had oh they were adorable. That was like my favorite part ever.. i also bought kinder chocolate!!! oh my it was amazing!! Anyways besides otavolo we went to this place that has all kinds of carving temples and a bunch of different homemade wood LDS stuff it was amazing. There was this lady when we got out of the bus that greeted us!! She´s there every time i guess and we took pictures with us... she was hilarious she couldn´t really talk and didn´t have much teeth haha but she was cute. WE all gave her money and took pictures and she loved us. AFter everything we went to this place to eat.. it was definitelydifferent... it was pork and potatoes and some wierd corn stuff but it was ok. And that was our field trip!! It was ablast!! I loved the shopping .. i got alot of stuff!! BArgaining is great! Anyways thats basically it for now. Excuse my bad grammer... i´m being lazy!! Love you all!! Ciao ciao!

first week....

2008-09-07T09:15:00.000-07:00

Hey!!! or Hola!!! wow its been one crazy week... i´m homesick but getting better.. no worries.
So we arrived at about eleven o clock on thursday met the girls and got our rooms. We talked for a while then went to bed. The next morning we got up ate breakfast and had orientation.. which just covered everything and was boring. After a while we went and toured Ecuador.. people are the craziest drivers here!!!!!!! but its awesome... and you can see the mountains its gorgeous. We are in the richer part of town which is weird cuz it doesnt seem like it. Anyway... wow we went shopping at the market thing.. and i went nuts for all the jewelry and homemade things and you get great bargains!!! AFter shopping for a while we went to a hamburger and hot dog place which was different but pretty good. The next morning we went to see the orphanage and take a tour.. as i was walking a little girl came up and just hugged me! it was adorable she latched on to me for a while. So we saw all the kids and they are adorable... i want to squeeze them.. after that was our first shift.. which was at SL... its an apt complex with about five different "families" that have a mom. We go there to give eaach family an activity for about a half hour and give the "moms" a break.. so we walk in the first family and the kids are all around us hugging us and talking to us... oh it was precious. So we did an activity with them and then would go to the next family. There was this girl Gabby.. oh boy she´s my fav... i loved her she had the cutest laugh and cheeks. So we left went home then i was off with another girl to night shift with the babies... oh boy i love them they are the sweetest little things... we cant pick them up very much cuz the workers get mad but i do love them. While one girl was sleeping i was in the room with them taking care of them. At eleven i helped the worker change diapers in Sala dos and Sala tres which are the older kids. That was an event they dress the kids like there in the coldest part of the world!! its just part of there culture but its weird the kids are hot and sweaty. Oh well... at one o clock i went to bed... it freaked me out!! its creepy upstairs i left the light on it was too scary. At six i woke back up and helped more with the babies then at seven came home. I went to church there was like no one there its crazy but there all so nice. Now i´m just chillin. But anyways ecuador is huge there is houses all over on the mountain its insane. But just thought i would let you know i will get pics up soon but i cant put any of the children on any website so you´ll just have to wait till i´m home to see the cutest kids ever!! Anyways i love you all!!!!