July 8th

Here is the family minus Travis who is taking the picture, just outside of the temporary apartment that we have here in Cuenca. After sleeping in the day after we arrived we decided to get out in order to get a few essentials that the apartment didn't come with such as food, towels, toilet paper and some good pillows. It is pretty easy to find a taxi as we live right across the street from one of the main rivers in the city. Of course we had to check it out and the kids love the river but they have to be very careful as it is very fast and dangerous. After a quick walk around to see the stores that are around we went to one of the new malls in the city to see if we could get some of the essentials. While there the kids tried out the train that takes a tour of the bottom level of the mall and enjoyed watching the kids play on a large trampoline. After getting some essentials we headed back to our apartment. Deciding that it would be fun to eat somewhere we took a little walk to our neighborhood to find some sort of restaurant and found a pizza place so we got a giant pizza not realizing how big it would really be, but extremely delicious. There are definitely a lot of good little places near us that serve some good food and for very cheap. It was a great day to get to know what there is near us and to start getting some of the essentials for our home in Cuenca.