Rain, Rain, Go Away

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 highways which in turn resulted in a huge crater in the highway.  Fortunately no one was hurt.  The minister of education closed schools for two days and although schools are back in session, it will be months before the hole is repaired and traffic patterns are back to normal.