We were so excited to visit family in Ecuador! First stop, Quito, a city perched between the mountains at 9,350 feet with a population of 2.6 million.
To get from Lima to Quito, we flew Avianca for the first time. It was a good experience, comfortable, and offered a variety of organic snacks, including plantain chips.
Uncle Ian and Aunt Lindy have been missionaries with HCJB Global (now Reach Beyond) for the last 20 years in Quito. They recently moved to Shell, but Quito is where they had been based previously. It was so special to visit their ministry, workplaces, and to see where their boys grew up and went to school. For us, there is something about seeing a ministry that you support in person that makes your heart grow for it even more.
We stayed at the HCJB guesthouse. All of the houses here are either protected by fences and gates or walls and shards of glass.
In the afternoon, we toured by double-decker bus through old town, past cathedrals and basilicas, and the Presidential Palace.
Eventually, after a back-and-forth climb, we arrived atop El Panecillo and saw the city, sprawled out for miles and miles, up and down the valley.
And then, it time to leave for Shell.
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