Feb. 29, 2008 - Guest Blogger: Ecuador Day 7
Day 7- February 14
This was our last day in Ecuador. We woke up at 7-7:30, and had the usual breakfast. Then we said good-bye to everyone and got on the bus for Macas, where we would then fly to Quito. We were all sad to leave Sucúa. Mr. Marbut went with us because he was going to the States with us.
Well, we got to Macas and we went to a wildlife preserve for a surprise. I held a Pocket Monkey. They’re very, small monkeys and the native women keep them as pets. They sleep in their hair! The same monkey bit the missionary in the past, but he didn’t get hurt. It bit Pastor Gary, and after that it stayed mostly on Angela and me. We also held a parrot, which tried to eat Angela’s seed bracelet. We took some good pictures, and then we came to the jaguar. It was a baby and about 30-40 lbs. I bent down to get a picture, and he stuck his paw through the fence and scratched my knee! I was the only one of the whole group that touched it. We also saw a spider monkey that climbed onto Mr. Marbut, and dad touched it, and it tried to bite him.
Well, we went to the airport and had lunch. Then we unloaded our luggage. Dad found out he forgot to put his pocketknife in the suitcase, so he gave it to the native pastor’s son. He didn’t want it to go in the big plastic box at the airport. We got on the airplane, and I got a window seat (YES!) right over the wing (oh). We tried to see the volcano, but it was cloudy.
We got all our baggage and brought it to the hotel. Then we went shopping. I got a chess set for $8, and dad bought souvenirs for Mom, Jubilee, and the others. Dad also spent $0.30 on a shoe shine.
After that, we went to the mall and ate at the food court. The menus were in Spanish, so if you weren’t with Mr. Marbut or Dad you didn’t know what you were buying. Ms. Sylvia bought three trays of food for $10 and practically everyone ate something off it, and we had to throw some away! Dad didn’t order for me, because I was "helping" her.
We looked around for a while, then decided we’d go get some ice cream. While we were there, a boy came up to us and offered to sell us gum for $1 a piece. It was sad seeing that maybe 8 year old boy in that state if he was really hungry. Then we went back to the hotel, did devotions, and hit the sack. Mr. Tony wasn’t having as many breathing problems from the altitude because he’d been off cigarettes for 7 days.
