New Year 2006/2007

New years morning and Laura got breakfast in bed for a change. Lucas who was happy he could valk by himself was exploring everything again. For the day nothing was planed exept a lunch/dinner upstairs with the family and then se the fireworks while burning the doll.













Me and Lucas at Lauras moms Appartment.











At night me, Ligia, Becky with mom and kid sister and Jon with friend took a walk to Amazonas street where there as usual was full of people, food and drinks.









A bunch of teams is competing in building the best set of dolls. I dont know what the winners get but at 00:00 they will all burn.










Here is the new president smiling and the one that lost in the final voting crying.










Jon is following the tradition that boys dress out like widows on new years eve and beg for money from other boys and men. Jon must have been too ugly though because he only managed to get like 35 cents.









At 00:00 Ecuador is burning with dolls. Its a tradicion to burn this home made dolls that is suppose to represent all bad things in the past year and I think like 95% is the president of Ecuador, just like ours was.








Jon is making sure that the president burns untill nothing is left.











The Fernandez family. From left: Ines, Ligia, Becky, Laura, Jon

A day tripp to the volcano Pichincha

Me, Laura and a friend of Laura, Ingolf from Germany, took a short trip over the mountains close to Quito to the foot ocf the vulcano Pichincha. Just on the other side of the mountain or 15 min with a buss i Quito.....hard to belive right??







Stright ahead is the vulcano Pichincha and around here people live on farming and on the few turists that wants to rent a horse. I can imagine how this place will look in another 10 or 15 years when the rich has taken over to build their weekend houses avay from the smog and polution in Quito.







In Ecuador thay have a law to prevent big landowners but sometimes people use the law in a bad way. 2 familys who probably found out that the farm on the picture above was abandond decided to take over the land by living thare for a certain time and then claim it thair own, everything in the name of the law. To bad for the kids who have to live like this in tents for a long time!!!!!! And imagine the owner coming back after 2 years or something to find out that he doesnt own the land any more!!!