Trip to Cajas National Park

Ok, so for those of you who have been waiting, we apologize. We keep thinking we are getting internet access in our home any day now. So we have been waiting to post. But communications are our biggest problem here. We have to go to the internet cafes to use the computer and our phones have been troublesome too. So we are very sorry. Additionally, on Friday September 5 we went for a little vacation at the beach. That will be our next post.

However, on August 27 we went to Cajas National park. If you look at the mountains that are visible from our apartment window, we are looking at the Andes Mountains and Cajas, in particular. These are amazing mountains that probably reach to 12,000 feet. Again, it is not a warm experience to go there. Yet we fared better than another American family who went on a completely rainy day. We saw the sun from time to time. There were a lot of Alpaca roaming the park. Coincidentally, our guide who you see explaining the Quinoa tree to Bridget went by the name of Cuco. He is the cousin of a guy who is being sponsored by Carmen to go to CCP for music, also by the name of Julian. We got a kick out of what a small world we live in.

I haven´t a clue how to arrange the pictures the way I want to yet. So I will keep making small posts and adding to them. For those of you who would like to comment, you need to click on the Title to the right of the blog and then it will present you with the option to comment at the end of the post.

We really miss everyone and hope to be in better contact within the next couple of weeks when we get our internet and phone situations worked out. Julian starts school tomorrow and Lizzie starts on Thursday. Bye for now.