There is nothing better than a busy weekend of pure fun! On Saturday morning, I woke up to a cloudy day....'normal' Quito weather...and by early afternoon it was raining.
It's okay though, because Sarah and I planned on taking our boys, Jasson and Arsenio, to the 
indoor water museum anyway, and then trying to see the presidential palace. We made it to the water museum, Yaku, and then had a nice little, informative tour. It was made for kids, so it was very interactive and at first our teenage boys were "too cool," but they ended up loving it. At the end of the tour, we got to make huge bubbles! What a great idea...a whole room dedicated to making big, soapy bubbles. It was a huge hit! Then we walked back down in the light rain to Centro Historico, but we were too late to enter the presidential palace. We got huge, delicious sandwiches instead and headed home. By the time I got home, I was just freezing and ready to curl up and watch a movie...so that's what I did, actually two movies!Then Sunday, C
inthya, Adam, and I went to Parque Carolina with two of our favorite families from La Marin. They have the cutest kids ever (Brennan's little buddy, Oscar, for example), and I taught the one mom, Luz, Adam teaches Fabiola, the other mom, and Cinthya teaches Francisco, Luz's husband and Fabiola's brother. Almost all the kids came too (only missing Fabiola's oldest son) so there were 15 of us total! It's pretty fun having big families. We had lunch out in the park, another beautiful sunny day (Praise the Lord after the rainy Saturday) while listening to this awesome concert raising money for Haiti. Then we played some soccer and vol
leyball, sprayed the foam at each other, and walked around a bit. It ended up being a full afternoon of just hanging out, but it was an awesome time to bond and really get to know the kids and parents better outside of the school setting. Although it was a full day and I was tired from all the sun, I most definitely had to see the Super Bowl! It ended up being only me and another volunteer, Jessica, that wanted to go watch it, so we went over to our friends', Colin and Brandon, house. It was an awesome game and we even got the commentary in English, but unfortunately sans the all-star commercials. Oh well, at least I got my football in!Nothing better than a fun, busy weekend to get be excited for another week of school. It really has been a good week, which is also due to the fact that we know we have vacation this weekend for Carnaval! And speaking of....all this Carnaval craziness came to the Center a bit last night. It is prohibited at the Center for safety reasons and to keep it clean, but Adam and I slightly broke the rules and played right outside the doors....maybe dragging/tricking students to come out to us :) Anyway, it was a lot of fun, but then one of the mothers came after me from behind and cracked an egg in my hair! Another tradition here...but kind of a gross one. I just had to laugh though, because honestly I did start it. Some of my high school girls helped me shampoo my hair and get me clean enough to go home to the nuns and priests for dinner. Supposedly you get kicked out of the Center until next week if you're caught playing Carnaval....so maybe I'll just get to take vacation early ;) I was a good girl today though, but Friday I'm going after all of them with no remorse!!! It's such a fun tradition and although a bit dirty, it is really harmless and all in good fun.
Que viva Carnaval!
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