Back in the Big city

Hello Blog Fans,
I just returned from Mindo and was surprised to find that the blog entries I did in Mindo did in fact get posted: ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA!!!
There is a story from my time in Mindo that I didn´t try to write while Iwas ther because of the problems with the internet, so now that I am back in the big city, I can tell it.
Thursday in the early afternoon I was strolling through the streets of Mindo (there aren´t that many) looking for a place to have lunch, hoping to find something a little better that the pizza places that line the main drag. I turned a corner to go down a side street and saw a sign that caught my eye. It was for a restaurant and the building looked like the kind of place I was looking for. I went in and found that it is owned by a couple in their late thirties, she is American and he is Ecuadoean. It turns out she was born and raised in Tucson, Arizona, went to college at the U of A, and got a nursing degree and joined the Peace Corp. She was sent to Columbia, part of the last Peace Corp group to go there. While she was there she met an Ecuadorean musician, who toured the world playing the flute, and similar instruments. They married and after a few years in Chicago where he studied music and she worked as a nurse, they decided to pursue their real dream, which was to open a hotel/restaurant in Mindo, Ecuador. They bought a lot in Mindo, designed the bilding themselves, had it built and opened about a year ago. It is the most fabulous place and this couple is absolutely wonderful. I had lunch there and went back for supper and they were the best meals I had. They gave me two CDs of their music (she learned to play stringed instruments and the two of them peformed every weekend at a restaurant while they were in Chicago. The type of music they play is South American jazz, that´s the best I can describe it.
If any of you ever go to Mindo theirs is the place to stay, first class everthing for $15 a night and the food is impeccable. What a coincidence !!
Well, I need to go to the grocery store, the bank, wash come clothes and fix a Stouffers frozen dinner and get a good night´s sleep. I am meeting Chris at 7:30 in the morning for a day trip to to Pululaua, with a stop at Mitad del Mundo (Middle of the Earth) which is supposedly the actual Equator where you can stand with one foot in the northern and the other in the southern hemisphere, my next adventure.
Adios for now,
Glenn+
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