El Tiempo Extrano

Today was Andrew's cumpleanos. He is my host brother of sorts. He studied abroad a year ago, and is back to visit the family. He came with a group of us to el centro historico which is this really beautiful part of Quito with a ton of history. Then later, we had a big celebration where my tio Esteban insisted that I play guitar for my cake in front of the whole family. But he said that David (another former exchange student of the family) and his sister could help me sing, so we rocked out to Man of Constant Sorrow. It wasn't the same as playing with the Lost Insides, but David was excellent at playing the spoons!

We all went to see el basilico, this really incredible church. My favorite part was that the gargoyles were all different animals, including armadillos. Intimidating.

The weather here is crazy. One second its like this:

and the next its like this:

And the real problem is that no matter what the weather actually is, weather.com will say there is a 60% chance of rain and a high of 65. Seriously, the next ten days all say the same thing. But yesterday, it barely sprinkled (even though I wore my rain boots all day) and today it poured (while I had neither an umbrella or a rain coat). Needless to say, it keeps things interesting!