El mitad del mundo

I realized I never showed you a picture of our house and courtyard.  We have a pretty big area where we can sit and eat, but it's mostly for laundry (we hang out and eat on the roof more than the courtyard).  We have three floors plus a roof, which is definitely my favorite part.  They are working on the water system in front of our house, so that is why there is a pile of dirt.  Mitad del Mundo!!!!  It ended up being a really long ride there - over two hours on the bus but we were on the equator.  This picture is of the "fake" mitad del mundo.  They built the monument and then when they remeasured and calculated it, they realized it was somewhere else, but it's still in the same complex.  It was it's own mini city with a lot of vendors and different restaurants (we got a combo of a cheeseburger, fries and coke for $1.80 - I love how cheap everything is).  There were llamas or alpacas roaming all around.  They weren't the biggest fans of people, but we managed to get some pictures with them.  I llove llamas :) But that's pretty much it for today.  We were out of the house for about nine hours and we are all exhausted.  Time to go to bed early and catch up on sleep.