Nothing really important or interesting happened this past Saturday, except that Leslie and I tried out this chain restaurant "Restaurante El Asador," which is a bit on the expensive side but their chicken and fries are both good. It's the closest thing that Cuenca has to fast food in the US, and it's a fairly popular chain here we figured we'd check it out. The one we went to is very close both to our house and to the river Tomebamba: the river that cuts through the center of the valley in which Cuenca sits. So we took a frisbee with us to play in the grassy fields next to the river, and ended up walking up and down as much of the river as has grassy fields on the west side of town. I haven't posted pictures in a while; this post is really just an opportunity to share some photos. Nothing really important happened this past Thursday and Friday. Also, we finally got our passports back from the government and got our Ecuadorian identification cards today. I'm also finally confident that I'm better at soccer than all the elementary school kids that I teach. But most importantly, I think Leslie and I found out how we're getting tickets to the Ecuador-Uruguay game on October 10th. Tomorrow afternoon we'll go buy them. Hopefully I'll post again soon about our tickets. Okay, finally, here are some pictures from el Rio Tomebamba.
"Enjoy Coca-Cola"
This is a picture of an interesting juxtaposition of cultural phenomena: chulas cuencanas doing their laundry in the Rio Tomebamba right in front of a busy street and the grocery store where Leslie and I buy our vegetables and rice and sometimes our humitas.
There were a couple rock-chair formations like this, so I stopped at one to take a rest and Leslie took a picture.
This is Leslie, with some buildings and the mountains in the background.
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