House construction in Mindo

A visit to Mindo to see how our house construction moves on

It hasn't rained almost anything and the workers have a plastic to get some shade in the burning sun

Kiara inspecting the foundation 

Foundation of the house

Preparation of the floor of the house

Laura and her mom checking out the future house

All the columns are made in the ground

After a busy morning Kiara fell asleep in the car on the way home

Lucas soccer game

Preparing the soccer field

Team pepping

And game...

Lucas starts to really enjoy the game

Even though he still are not to competitive 

And they lost the game with 1-9

House in Mindo

Finally we started to build our house in Mindo. If the plans goes well we might be able to enjoy a first BBQ in April or May 2014

Kiara at skating school

Kiara started skating school a while ago as she wanted to learn skating. It takes place in Lucas school on Saturdays from 08:00-11:00.

And while Kiara is skating, Lucas and Dana plays around in the school yard.

They are learning basic things and skills to maneuver good.

Dan wants to do everything that Lucas or Kiara is doing

And that includes to swing high or she gets pissed off.

And she seems to be happy in either the monkey bars or the rings. Dont know why all our kids are like monkeys? Maybe because both their mom and dad were the same?

After skating Kiara also wants a moment in the swings before heading back home for lunch.

Finally getting started in Mindo

Our land in Mindo where we finally got started on our house as of today when work started on the foundation with some escalation. Here is how it looked to start with.

And after some cleaning about 2 weeks ago and a bit more leveled out and the picture is taken from the corner of the land where the house will stand. The rest of the about 2800 m2 land will be part open space for the kids to play, part garden with flowers and part garden with things like yucca, bananas, herbs, orange tree, lime tree, chili, papaya and whatever fruits that can help with a great lunch and of course the mandatory BBQ area will be arranged by yours truly.

The fence was planted recently as well and while this is growing the barbwire will keep the cows out from the place. As fence we chose a mix of Crotus, Bugambilla and Cucarda.

Kiara represent her class at school

Kiara was chosen to represent her class at school as "Mardina" or godmother during sport-day so she got to dress up instead of having the usual school uniform for a day.

Laura and Rita holding the placard for Kiaras class that is called "Los Pecesitos" meaning the small fishes.

Kiara with her teacher in white and classmates getting ready for the parade.

Kiara and the boy representing their class together with their class mascot, a goldfish in a bowl. Notice that Kiara and the boy are almost a head taller than the rest of the class and even taller that everybody in the class next to them who are one year older. Maybe that is why they were chosen to represent the class?

Kiara together with all the representatives of each class in school.

Kiara starts school

 Kiaras first day in uniforme for the first day that was basicaly to meet the new teacher at her pre-basica class.
 More important the first day for Kiara though was to try out the playground at school.

Angelhair

My angelhair made by Serita from the GLA groups this year. She made some kind of brades in my hair but after a while it started to itch to mych and when loosing it up I looked like this......thanks Serita

Visit to Otavalo with Mary

Mary at a view point on the way to Otavalo market

Me as well at the view point.

Going back to Quito

Mary and Laura having a snack in Nanegalito

Nanegalito and the cloud forest.

Laura and Mary.

Visit to Fundacion Amiga with Mary

Mary with the food engineer at the education part for cooking holding up some marmalade that the students are making there.

Mary together with one of the girls in the school and Padre Silvino who founded the foundation.

Mary with some of the students that we talked to.

Guillermo, administrator, Alberto, director, Laura, Mary, padre Silvino and me.

Battle of Pichincha at Lucas school

Lucas and one of his classmates dressed up and ready for the battle.

Lucas with the flag of Ecuador.

Lucas and his friends.

Lucas on stage with his friends where they demonstrated for the school how the battle of Pichincha went down as the last battle against the Spanish to gain the liberty of Ecuador.

Galapagos

Back in Galapagos to prepare some work and sitting in a not to bad place for a dinner meeting with my friend Mauricio.

Kiara at the hospital

Kiara is waiting for mom to come to the hospital so she can go home. She got here on Sunday morning as she had an allergic reaction to something and has been bored ever since. My back also starts to hurt after sleeping in a crapy bed for 2 nights.