"No te vayas"

I had breakfast with the family.  That was at about 10am.  Joaquin had already showered.  As we ate Adriana said it was my last breakfast with the family, but I assured her I’d get up early for tomorrow’s breakfast.  I simply can’t miss that.  Carlos even said something like I had to get up for it.  So, today was my 2^nd to last breakfast in Quito.

Carlos, Juanjo, Joaquin, Martica and I then went to a mall in el Condado so that Carlos could pick up some tennis shoes he had asked Cesar to save for him.  Cesar works at the Converse store.  The mall was really nice.  I think I liked it better than the others I had been to because of the design.  We chilled at the Converse store for a while until Carlos bought his shoes and a few other things.  We walked around, Juanjo got in a kids’ maze that was set up I think for the holiday season, we got ice cream and looked for a digital camera for Joaquin – “¡La mas barato!”  Yes, that’s how he would say it.  We were all very hungry so we were glad to head over to gramma’s house for lunch and hang out there for the rest of the evening.

I had a credibly good time with all of them.  As always the lunch was good – Adriana made sure to cook the beans for me since she knows I love them… plus she loves beans as well.  I played “five coin” with Joaquin, Micaela and Juanjo.  Five coin is a game that Joaquin showed us which require a coin, we used a quarter, and to start off one of the players spins the coin.  The next person has to keep spinning it, then the next, etc.  Whoever makes it stop loses.  I really liked this game.  Maybe I should say he’s not really sure that’s what it is called.  We also played a cool game Rumikub. When it came time to leave, everybody began to say goodbye to me and I got a little emotional.  Don Hernan hugged me for a long time and told me that I was always welcome there because they are now my family as well.  I was very touched with what they had to say.

Oh yeah, Don Hernan made me laugh during lunch when he was talking about how his illegal dvd's weren't working.  Jessica was saying that they aren't good quality, after all they are $1.  Don Hernan made sure to clarify that they were "un dolar cincuenta."

Later that night Yonseili and I went out with Robert Pattinson, I mean, Joaquin.  We waited forever for a taxi.  We decided to go to calle Floreana to see if we could get one there and then headed towards Amazonas.  A white car approached us and asked if one of us was "Denis," and that was our driver.  We had seen that car on floreana with the hazard lights on... maybe he was lost.  He said something was going on with the car, whatever.  We just wanted to get to Coffeetree.

All I have to say is that I will really miss Coffeetree.  We had a good time hanging out.

Highlight of the day: Hanging out with the fam.