Bike ride with Cristina Cristina borrowed her friend's bike for the day, we play on a rope swing along the way and we got stuck in a storm and then I got a flat tire on her bike..... Could've went better.... Haha Between exercising, playing my guitar, learning Spanish and helping Cristina get some stuff done that she couldn't do while she's at work my day-to-day life is pretty relaxing and non-stressful!

Cristina's cousins graduation Cristine's cousin recently graduated from University and her mom through her a big party, big party like food and drinks on the house! It was some of the most gourmet food I've had on my entire trip. Cristina's entire family was there also so I got to meet everybody, I think it went well, her dad didn't stare me down too bad I suppose... Haha After dinner all the waiters were running around constantly feeding everybody whiskeys, t...

Biking and Bowling I've been doing a lot of exercising and exploring the city of Cuenca on Cristina's bike. They have a great bowling complex in the mall really close to Cristina's house so we went and bowled a few times. Cristina is not the greatest bowler and one time when she went to throw the ball she forgot to let go and had a pretty classic wipe out!!!

Military parade Today was a national holiday and there was a giant military parade down one of the main streets! It was pretty awesome with lots of cool equipment with jets and airplanes flying over top of us! Some little weasel managed to get their sticky fingers on my wallet somehow though!!! Crafty little thieves.... Arrgg! I suppose it was my fault though because I know better than to have a wallet in your pocket when you're amongst so many people. Afterwa...

Giron waterfalls, San Fernando and Laguna De Busa..... and big decisions... Cristina and I hopped on a bus and headed to the town of Giron, where close by there were nice waterfalls. At first we thought we found the road towards the waterfalls and started walking, a few minutes later we could see the waterfalls way way up the side of the hill and realized it would take a long time to walk there. So we went back to the city and took a cab who took a different roa...