This past weekend Paul and I successfully recreated Cheesecake Factory’s Thai Lettuce Wraps! We were so excited to be able to make a favorite eating-out treat thousands of miles from the nearest restaurant. Ecuadorian food is quite good and varies by region – coastal, highlands or jungle. Rice is a staple and potatoes are often used in the mountain regions. One of [...]
As parents, we are constantly tempted to write about our amazing kids, but we try not to over-do it. This weekend we celebrated Nathan’s fourth birthday and I want to take this opportunity to write about him. You can see pictures of the Cars party in the photo gallery. Nathan is all little boy and [...]
As we wrote in our last e-mail update, this has been a very unusual rainy season for Ecuador. It hadn’t affected us as much here in Quito except for cloudy rainy days until the beginning of ths month. The excess rain water caused a drain pipe to burst under a cloverleaf connection of several main [...]