A Routine life is good.............

It's been two weeks since I last posted, so I figured it was time to pop in and say we are alive and well.
The well part feels good, as both Doug and I were down and out for a few days with a tummy bug.
We were able to get some medicine from the local Farmacia and were up and about in 3 days.

We are getting settled and life is starting to become normal.
Doug has finished his first round of Spanish lessons and I have just started a 5 week course.
We have been able to get by with the little bit of Spanish we know, along with a whole lot of pantomine and hand signals, but life will certainly be better when we can converse in,  and understand the language.

We are now happily ensconced in our temporay penthouse apartment untill our permanent rental is finished. We are on the 5th floor with no elevator. By the end of our 3 month stay, we should be very fit!
Right now I can barely make it to the top without stopping.

We have started looking for furniture and household goods and I am quite happy with what we are seeing.
We stop in to check on the progress of our new place once a week . Here are some pics I took this week:

                                        The kitchen has marble floors and black granite counters.

                                          One of the bathrooms.

                                               The balcony.

The apartment should be finished on schedule.

I'm not sure where the time goes. We seem to fill our days without really trying.
Once a week we go to Banos for a soak in he volcanic pools. My back pain has all but disappeared.
We head out by foot and bus on a daily basis and explore a different part of the city. Sundays we take Pete to Paradise Park so he can run off leash play with other dogs.
All in all, we are just enjoying life. No alarm clocks to wake up to. I don't even wear a watch anymore.
The weather has been awesome. Some cool evenings. Some short periods of rain. We always have an umbrella in our back packs, just in case. I have not been cold in the month and half we have been here.

Life is good......................

Here are a few more pictures of our wonderfule city.............

Entertainment set up at 10 de Agusto Mercado

My anniversary flowers

Doug at Parque Calderon

                                                         Doug at a neighborhood Market

                                              I like to think about all of us being under the same moon........

                                             My friend Kris and I....and a cow in someones front yard.

                                                Doug and Kris studying Spanish.

                                                     Kris and Doug in El Centro

                                                 Parque Calderon

                                                  Pete at the River

                                         Pete's favorite morning nap place ...........

                                                  Tomebamba River

                                             Stuffed toy ponies at the park

                                                     My attempt of photogaphy art...........