"Una pieza unica"

I woke up super late today... 11:30am!

I had brunch pretty much and like two hours later had lunch.  Geeze, I feel like I've wasted so much time.  Please, someone tell me, how do I go to sleep early?!  It's been like impossible to do that and it's not as if we get as much homework as we do back home.  It really should be easy.

Yonseili has been wanting to go to the Starbucks of Ecuador - Juan Valdez Cafe.  So today we went and I had a hot chocolate, a glazed donut and bought a $1 bracelet with the cafe's name on it.  Our main goal for the day was to get the concert tickets for the Alejandro Sanz concert on October 28th.  We tried TropiBurger before the cafe, but since we couldn't get them there at that time we had to go to C.C.I. after the cafe.

We bought our tickets for the concert at the Tu Boleta which seems to be the Ticketmaster of Ecuador.  There was a lady complaining to the girl about her ticket and blah blah blah.  Yonseili's eye was caught by some incense stand by the ticket booth and she went ahead and bought a few of those aromatic sticks.  There was one that smelled like Vaporub and I really don't like that stuff.  I remember I never liked it when my mom put that on me.  No matter where she put it, it felt like I could breathe too much or like I was getting in too much oxygen.  That almost burning sensation was not helpful.  I also don't like Alka-seltzer and that is why I don't like mineral water, because it seems like I'm drinking that.  I don't like coffee either.

A-ny-way

Yonseili saw a picture booth by the ticket booth and we decided to take a picture.  There was a girl that was in charge of it and she helped us out.  We took three pictures and picked one.  The pictures come out with the effect as if they are drawn by hand.  We decided we'd buy a pretty frame for it and dedicate it to my host family for everything.

Highlight of the day: We got a kick out of wrapping the frame.  After dedicating it to them and putting the picture in the frame we looked for something to wrap it in.  Yonseili went to the room next to her host parents' room and found some nice paper and we taped several things to that: a yellow flower from Yonseili's room from the garden, a piece of the receipt of the Crazy Pollo place, a Coca-Cola bottle cap, and a granola bar.  That was just on the front because on the back we taped a Crazy Pollo menu.

We went home and my host mom was there still with her sister-in-law and mother-in-law.  We went up to her and told her we got a very unique piece of art for her.  She opened it up and was happy with the wrapper.  She mentioned she'd like to frame it actually.  She really loved our picture and put it in the living room.  As soon as you open the door you an see Yonseili and me smiling.  It's kinda funny actually.

For dinner we had bread.  That 'we' was my host mom, my host brother and his cousin, aunt and grandma.  We talked about several things including the Jonas Brothers and Justin Bieber.  Micaela (Juan Jose's cousin) says she really likes Justin Bieber.  Later her dad showed up and ate everyone's leftovers pretty much.  After they left, We watched Wall-E in my host parents room while Yonseili was on the computer and I shared my pics with my host family from the Galapagos.  After that I went over to Yonseili's house to watch the movie Vicky, Christina, Barcelona.  A good movie for sure; just not sure that I got anything out of it other than entertainment.  When that finished we watched the ending of the movie Rumor Has It with Jennifer Aniston.  I plan on watching that movie completely later.

Then I went home and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz