Ever heard of carbfest?

**CURRENTLY LISTENING TO: The Unwinding Car Cable by Anberlin**

We are officially two months in. CRAZY! In about two weeks we'll be halfway done. CRAZIER!

Well, this past weekend was a fun one. =]

First off, on Friday, Haley was meeting a guy from our Quichua class to ask him questions from another Spanish class she had. She didn't want it to be awkward, so she asked me to go with her. We went to the Plaza Foch in the Mariscal (or gringolandia) and met Nanki at a restaurant. We just sat and talked for a while and drank coffee and milkshakes. Then we left and went to a Hookah bar to do Haley's homework. I pretty much just sat there and listened to them talk, cuz it wasn't my homework. But when they finished, Nanki asked if we wanted to go dancing, so we did. It was about 10 PM, so we found a salsa place and danced for a while, then we went to look for another place to dance, but all the places Nanki was taking us to were closed, so we went to a Karaoke bar, which was interesting. =]

There are TV screens on the walls that have the lyrics (and some really random pictures in the background; waterfalls, deer, nature stuff....wierd.) and you give the waitor your song picks and they put you on the list. When your song(s) comes up, you get the wireless mic and just sing your heart out. Obviously, most of the songs are in spanish, but haley and I found three good ones to sing. We sang, Heroe by Enrique Iglesias, Como la Flor by Selena, and I Can't Help Falling In Love With You by Elvis....yes I know. We're classey. =] It was funny cuz towards the end of the Elvis song the rest of the Ecuadorians were trying to sing along. =]
By the time we sang our songs, it was about 2 am, and I had to go home. We left and once I reached my bed, I was sleeping.

On Saturday, Meghan, Nikki, Sasha, Julie and I had a carbfest. =]
By this, I mean that we made Mac and cheese, Perogies -filled with cheesy potatoes, oreo pudding, and chocolate covered strawberries and bananas. It was soo good.

We started at about 1, shopping at the Megamaxi (which is the ecuadorian walmart). Then we went back to Sasha's apartment to make the wonderful food. I consentrated on the oreo pudding while Nikki and Meghan started the perogies. Julie arrived late and when she got there, the oreo pudding was in the freezer, so her and I worked on covering the bananas and strawberries in chocolate. Meghan took over the Perogie making and Nikki worked on the mac and cheese.
Finally it was all done and we sat down and ate our wonderful meal. It was delicious and we are already planning on having another one. =]

We finished around 5 pm and were suppoesed to meet the rest of the BCA group in the historical center at 5:50. We left at 5:30, making us late. =\ but we got there pretty much right when they started and joined them inside a church.

After hearing a bunch of history of the church and it's leaders, we got to go up in this like secret passageway thing. It was soo freaking cool. =] It was a very narrow, short staircase that was made of stone, lit by candle light and led to the roof of the church. It was really neat. I love things like that. (and now i'm for sure getting secret passageways in my house) When we reached the roof, it was completely dark so all of the city lights were all lit and it was a beautiful view. Unfortunately, I forgot my camera, so I'll have to steal someone else's pictures. =]

Then we had a little bit more of the tour in another part of the historical center. After we were finished we went into this hotel-type place and had hot chocolate, the rest of our chocolate strawberries, and cheese (which you were supposed to put in the hot chocolate, but that's gross so I didn't). Afterwards, me, Meghan, Nikki, Heather, and Kelly all went to the movies. We were going to see ''Grown ups'' but by the time we got there the tickets were sold out so we went and saw ''The Expendables''. It was a Sylvester Stallone movie, hence, lots and lots of guns and fighting, but it was okay.

Sunday, we all met at the Ecovia station at 8 and left for our trip to south Quito. It was fun. First, we stopped at two different lookouts that overlooked Quito and it was quite a view. Then our last stop was at a day care/school. We played a few ice breakers with the parents of the kids and then we sat down and made visors with them out of foam stuff.

After we traded our visors, we sat down and had lunch (which we provided; subs, apples, bananas and drinks) with them and talked some more. All in all, it was a good day.

It was a good weekend. =]
Hasta Luego.



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