Ecuadorian Dinner Photos

Photos from our super fun and successful Ecuadorian Dinner on March 5th.

Our house was transformed into "Cafe Ecuador."  Everyone arrived and immediately began chatting with someone else.  My brothers and I brought out each course of delicious Ecuadorian food; first a salad with tomato, radish and avocado on top.  We brought out the first empanadas filled with beef, potato, spices, a jalapeno sauce and pickled onion on the side.  The jalapeno sauce (as well as everything else) was a hit and we had to bring out extra for some of the tables.  After everyone was finished with their appetizers and had rested for a few minutes we came out with the main course: a steaming plate of Arroz Amarillo (yellow rice), Seco de Polo (stewed chicken) and Frijoles Negros (black beans) with a garnish of avocado.  It might sound a bit plain but with all the sauces spices it tasted very good and got lots of compliments.

Snowshoe Adventure

The land had already been wiped clean, its edges softened by strokes of white. Still the sky dropped it's feathers of snow around us as we clipped snowshoes onto our winter boots.  Across the field we trekked, our small group of brave adventurers; land and sky blending together, merging into a silver cocoon, a soft shell of gentle shadows.

The five adventurers

The day was cloudy but bright. The sun fought it's way valiantly through the cloud-layer, skipping between the billions of falling crystals to light the land below.  Ahead the white was broken by the deep green of pines.

The forest reached out its trailing fingers fringed with needles as we reached the wall of trees.

I entered the forest, my energetic brothers, Willy and Timmy, hopping in behind on their smaller snowshoes.  As the rest of the group filed into the forest I heard someone remark: "It feels like stepping into Narnia."  I definitely agreed.