We Made It

Thank you everyone for your kind words and well wishes. Mark and I made it to Colorado without incident. Of course, we were sleep walking for the first two days. Especially Mark since he is still weak. He is much better; the antibiotics are working. I think it has a lot to do with the fact that I am such an expert shot giver NOT! He keeps complaining about a certain area of his body that is hurting.

Anyway, know we are safe and sound and really enjoying the beautiful weather and great food. I will be so fat when I get back to Ecuador...oh well, I don't get to splurge that often.

Almost Delayed

So Mark and I are getting excited to leave Ecuador and have some vacation. We worked extra to earn a bit more money and get a few gifts for are families. And what happens? A threat of a paro. The indeginous are protesting a new law and closing the roads. Traveling to Guayaquil is iffy... then Thursday night about midnight Mark wakes up with a high fever. We take him to the doctor and he orders all type of tests that literally spent all our travel money and the doc said he needs to be in the hospital. He has Prostatitis. We told the doc that we were traveling and then he said he would insert a herperin lock so he could get interveinous injections. No, please that won't work either so we talked him into giving us injections and pills. So, every 12 hours I'm giving him injections and as long as we can keep his fever under control the doc released him to travel.

Hopefully, we will get through to Guayaquil and Mark can rest in the States.

YEAH!

I'm so excited. Aimee and Steve bought us airline tickets to visit them in the States. It has been such a long time since we have had a vacation much less time in our home country. We are flying out next Saturday and I will spend the majority of the time with Aimee in Colorado. Mark will be a week there and then fly to Texas to work. We are hoping to make enough money to catch up on the debts we incurred when I had my surgery.

We will be going very upbeat and encouraged since this week is our CO visit. It has been great and we are ready to keep going.

I'll try to post a bit while in the States, but if you don't hear from me...you know why.