November 15, 2007

Cayambe

After just a few hours of sleep, we were up by 0800. Heide feed her dogs and cat. She has six dogs and one cat. The are so much fun. We then got ready and headed over to Mucki's, the restaurant that Thomas and Heide run and is named after their mother. We then met Thomas, who is also G's cousin and Toby, Thomas' wife.

After a quick breakfast of bread and butter and fresh mandarin orange juice, we went with Thomas and two of his employees to a flower grower in Cayambe, Schreurs, that they are catering for tommorrow. The drive took us about 2 hours, but we were able to stop at the middle of the world marker. The correct one as determined by the Indians, not the tourist landmark. We took some pictures.

After arriving at the rose farm, they started putting up the chairs and tables. G and I went for a walk to check out the greenhouses. The roses were amazing and there were so many types of them.

Thomas, G and I then headed out for lunch at a local resturant. I had empandas de verde, which are ground green bananas stuffed with cheese made in the shape of traditional empanadas, cream of asparagus soup, caprese salad, french fries and fresh blackberry juice. Delicious.

We then took lunch back to his employees where we completed setting up for the event. We then drove back to the resturant where we met up with Heide and headed over to Thomas' for dinner before heading to bed for some much needed rest.