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We woke up at 6:20 a.m. this morning to see Antonio and Tayanta off and wish them good luck. Tayanta is a little ray of sunshine, and we will miss her during our last couple of days here, but this is an opportunity not to be missed! If she could get her eye surgery for free via this fortuitous six degrees of separation, it would be something beyong the family's wildest dreams.
Thank you so much, Anna and Virginia, for the good work that you do. You have given this family hope. After giving the little angel a kiss goodbye, we went back to bed for a while before I started work at 8 o'clock. Breakfast consisted of fluffy scrambled eggs with pieces of chicken hot dogs scrambled into them, coffee, bread, and juice. Marcelo and Sandra were here working on the house, and they joined us for breakfast. The family didn't understand the Godfather joke from yesterday, so we sent them a link to the relevant scene from the movie and explained it while they watched. They all got a good laugh out of it. Sisa, Yupanqui, and a friend named Brittany came home from school during mid-morning recess to eat breakfast. Craig started to pack our things...some things would be coming home with us and some would be staying here. We would be leaving two days from now. For lunch, we had soup with chicken feet. It was our first time eating them. As we expected, there wasn't much meat to them. They were kind of rubbery and the toenails scratched you. But they were tasty enough. Rosa made me uvilla juice for my cold. Antonio called during lunch and said that Tayanta would need to stay overnight in Quito. We hope that this is a good sign. Antonio needs to be home tomorrow to guide tourists on a hike around Lago Cuicocha, so Aida took the 1:30 bus to Quito so that they could trade off shifts and he could come home tonight. The kids know that we are leaving on Saturday and they are sad about it. They asked us not to leave and to live with them forever. We told them that we would be back soon...May at the latest. The kids immediately perked up and started singing an impromptu song about Mayo (May). Marcelo and Sandra finished installing the bamboo ceilings on the third floor. Marcelo didn't have a way to get back down after completing the ceiling, so he had to climb down a tree! Jung and Ruby Natalia were here as well. Natalia seemed to be getting the cold that was going around. She was unusually quiet and almost fell asleep at the table. We had some rain showers but it brightened up for sunset, and the sky became a nice patchwork of pink, purple, and orange. Sisa and Yupanqui danced around with reed flutes, emulating their grandfather. I helped Abuelita and the kids peel some uvilla fruit. Rosa served a nice picante sauce with the chicken and rice that we had for dinner. It was made from the hot peppers that they grow in the garden, and it was quite tasty. The kids were being very rowdy and silly. We think that it is because we are leaving soon. After dinner, Rosa gave Craig's legs another vapor bath. Yupanqui and Chipi the cat came in to keep us company in the casita while Craig's legs were absorbing the vapors. It's now 9 p.m. and Antonio just got home. Tayanta's eye exams went well today. Tomorrow, she will have a heart test and blood work. Assuming that all goes well, she will have the surgery at around noon. She wouldn't be discharged until Saturday, which is the day we leave. So we wouldn't get to say goodbye to her, which is a shame because she is such a little love! We are so glad that we kissed her goodbye this morning! |
 Antonio and Tayanta leave early for Quito  Sisa and Yupanqui come home during recess for breakfast  Abuelita and Chipi 
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