This morning this little girl dropped in with her mother for a few minutes. Isn’t she a little doll? This is the native dress for women and a large percentage young and old are dressed like this. This one is 5 years old.
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Revisiting a Development
Today we met with some people to explain a bit more about a new development that we had a brief visit to a few days ago.This is a picture of the outside looking into the main room. Yes that is an outside fireplace being built. Inside you can see the fireplace in the front room. Great woodwork on the outside isn’t it. What you are seeing through into the front room is a window. Yup it isn’t in place as yet.
Ok, you can tell we walked inside. This is looking from the front room toward the kitchen. Back behind the bar is the kitchen they are working on. You can see a bit of the ceiling woodwork showing too. It is a little hard to see but there is can lights in the ceiling and in the archway into the kitchen. Now if you are really good you can see the overhead lighting in the top of the window to the right of the picture behind the fireplace. Those tall rectangular boxes are for shelving and there is lighting in the top too.
This entire development was designed by an Architect, and of course that includes the houses too.
Today we got a good overview of the complete development and details of the house (casa) plans for the development. It was a great couple of hours.
Lunch and candle light dinner
After doing our exhausting real estate tours we stopped to eat with a couple of friends and had a 4 course lunch. We had an appetizer that was chicken breast wrapped in bacon with sauce, beef potato soup. The entree of a shredded beef and peppers in a great sauce, with rice potatoes and veggies. This was followed up with a peach for dessert. It was way more food than we expected. We also had 2 bottles of water and 2 lemonades. The cost was $12 and change.
We didn’t want much for dinner after that huge lunch so while prepping dinner and working on the real estate post for yesterday I was ready to post and ready to cook when POOF, just like that, no power. So… in the darkness, your trusty roving reporter cooked a little Pasta Carbonara for dinner. It turned out pretty good and under the light of candles we had dinner.
Today we are off to the Dentist again. We will stop at the Super Maxi on the way back and pick up something for Thanksgiving. We won’t have time to fix lots we will save that for later.
Tata for now….
Ecuador Real Estate Tour
Dave here…Your roving reporting team was VERY busy today looking at real estate in this general area. It is hard to show just a few examples but we have them in the Ecuador Album, just a few highlights. Let me see if I can summarize what we saw. AMAZING, ok there you go done!… ok, ok, I will expand a little.
We saw lots to build on in a development for of .6 acres to 1+ acres for 40k – 80k with absolutely stunning views just outside of town.
In our little tour we visited I think 4 other houses (casas) that ranged from $80K to $135K all with great views and very workable layouts. At the higher end there were fireplaces and bathrooms in each bedroom and fabulous woodwork.
We also saw a development of 4 unit Condominium buildings with just stunning views. These run about $89k to $130k