August

We´ll have more details soon (maybe!), but I wanted to post a little more news about our position with MCCH. We met with them last Friday and will be meeting again tomorrow. However, details are starting to come together...at least for the month of August.

We had hoped to work with MCCH this week, but since we won´t be...we´re heading to the beach! We´ll be off to Canoa, a small town on the coast for a few days in the sun. We might even learn to surf. Well, Ben might learn to surf. I might learn how to swim!

We have two dates on calendarnder in the middle of August. We will be accompanying MCCH staff to meetings in Tena and Puyo, both jungle towns. They are ¨jumping off¨points into the deeper jungle, so relatively good roads go to them. We´ll be heading to Tena first, sitting in on a meeting, and then heading to Puyo the next day. The idea is that we will be introduced to the organizations in those towns so that we can come back later on our own to work. We would like to stay in one of these towns for a week or two, but those details are still being worked out.

After our 2 day -- a week with MCCH, my lovely Father and Grandmother will be arriving in Quito for a week. We´re super excited about thier visit. It´s been fun to look through all the travel books and plan a vacation...within our vacation! As always, we would love to have more people come visit us. We´d be super ´local´ guides, I promise!