Here's Patty and Michelle and I on Monday evening before we left for the Panecillo to have dinner at Pim's.
This statue is at the highest elevation in Quito, overlooking the city. She is a representation of the Virgin Mary.Here is a view to the north of Quito from the Panecillo, and you can see the lights of the Basillica.
On Wednesday we travelled through the Andes mountains to a community about 1.5 hours east called Papallacta. We had a history lesson from our guide / driver Julio and had the opportunity to photograph the beautiful scenery. We hiked for a little bit along the River Papallacta (they have a hydroelectric plant in the community) and enjoyed the pastoral landscape with cows and horses grazing on the mountainsides.
OK I'm being brave showing these pictures - but the experience in the hot springs was very relaxing ... the dip in the FREEZING river was painful!
Joe had a "grande" beer after we got out of the hot pools ... we ate and ate and ate this week!
Patty, Michelle, and Karla were such great hostesses and really have a great vision for developing an effective dysphagia program in their country.
Thursday afternoon we had the opportunity to tour the Centro Historico after Joe presented at the Panamerican ENT Congress in the morning. We went into some very ornate baroque churches and again took lots of pictures of the people and places. 
This pesky rooster crowed each morning around 4 AM in the yard next door to the guest house.
This is one of the guards at the Presidential Palace ... amazing how close we were allowed to get!
On Thursday night we were entertained by SEFAL before our Friday presentations to about 150 SLPs. Joe learned how to dance, sort of!
I'll post more pictures and tell more stories as I get them developed. I have to say I learned more than I taught and look forward to returning.
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