Bye Bye Guayaquil!

Last day in Guayaquil. We met with the Hogar de Cristo people and presented the information we gathered from the kids' health screenings. We got it done in time, and it all went well! On our way back to the hotel, we had a perma-smile contest for 33 minutes. Yep, 33 straight minutes of smiling. Other ways to keep us occupied during our times of waiting this week was MASH. Yeah, from like 3rd grade. What could be better than the possibility of living in a shack, marrying Billy Ray Cyrus, and working as a lotto ticket saleswoman on the street? Maybe a Gigapet. But none of those are currently available in Guayaquil.

For lunch we went to a restaurant on the Malecon because the Junta wanted to take us to lunch before we left. They gave us a bunch of appetizers, but we weren't really sure what they all were. There was fried Yucca, which is like a potato but starchier. Empanadas and humitas (a corn mush thing cooked in oil) were the only things we really knew, but it was interesting to try a little bit of everything. The Junta has been so great to us. They have driven us EVERYWHERE everyday and helped set up a lot we've done here.

This afternoon we had some time to go to the market and do a few last minute things before we leave Guayaquil...like go to Fragola and get our last ice cream! Tricia, Sarah, and I went to get the ice cream covered in chocolate, their specialty. Our good friend and loyal ice cream patron, Andres, was geared up with his swine flu mask to serve up a wonderful coconut ice cream cone covered in chocolate. How wonderful it was. (P.S. This one was a small!)