Well, I wrote this once, then didn´t post it before I logged out, and lost everything. So, keeping this short since I am about to eat lunch with the family, I will give the highlights. I met my older sister, who lives with her husband nearby. I learned that Ecuadorian roses are the most beautiful because the sun strikes the ground perpendicularly and makes them grow super long and perfectly straight. Two dozen roses cost about a dollar here. Tomorrow I go to the ecuator, and yesterday I ate the strangest fruit I have ever encountered. More to come!