cuenca! a beautiful city to the southern part of the country - still in the same mountain range.....it's a 10hr. bus ride from quito OR a 30min. flight....we opted for the flight, but our flight did not leave ontime, so we missed all of our meetings....we ended up just going for dinner, then to sleep in the beautiful restored colonial hotel...then an amazing breakfast, then back to quito....

we found this menagerie of fake and real farm animals......the calf seems to be a real stuffed toy.....

i lived in cuenca in the summer of 1990 in this old house in the colonial side - we went to see it, and now it is a german bar & cafe called wunderbar - the best caipiroska i have had in ecuador so far!

then ate chifles in the street from this very cute paper bag....

there are also these chinese dollar stores ALL over ecuador now......hmmm.......

you can see valeria here in the park taking pics, too....she is my boss? and also ana maria's best friend.......etcetcetc.....

and you see mark here also, the consultant from germany....we are having a nice breakfast at the hotel before we take off again for quito!