i bet these captions are going to be alllllll messed up....

alright, well maybe there was going to be some sort of rhyme or reason to how these pictures go, but i guess there's not.... so anyway....
it's going to be kind of random... GUESS WHO THIS IS!?


















chris attacking me and ale at the beach, as we lounge on our hammocks that are 100% pretty safe...


ale ale oxen free!



it's water, i swear!



pedro was not actually at the wedding... but i did run into him at las penas!!








cuy, anyone?

banos was sweet!!! anife (sofia's sister) and rigoberto (anife's friend) and i went. it was much further than we thought--i was expecting 6 hours each way and it was 9-10, but it was SO WORTH IT!! we went on a tour to see a bunch of waterfalls, and went up to the top of one mountain to get a view of the VOLCAN TUNGURAHUA... which erupted pretty bigtime last july/august.







whoa, sofia. simmer down!
some of us at the malecon riverwalk... yay!

fat guy in a little coat?
me with lisbeth, my sponsored child!


back to banos! i jumped off a bridge! (i'll let you guess which one!)

guess who got to fly first class from chi-town to newark?!
HAPPY NEW YEAR! let's blow stuff up!

(above) me and sofia on our way back to the states ;(

me and pedro and some of the girls from the fundacion where i worked before.... they're so BIG now!!!!

can you tell they're sisters?
menestra with hot dogs!!! yummm


me with my host "parents"--maximo and anny!

and then me with my host family--

maximo, anny, me, azael, germania, and the two little ones, emilia and juan pablo

esta foto es para uds, omar y pedrito.

LOCOS! ;)

frutabar!!

:)
david, viviana, matthias, christian

chillaxin'

grr!

me and pedro and omar! at las penas!

tuesday!

the sweet hostal with no phone!

my batido de banano!




my name is chris... i'm afraid of heights.

tuesday?








we were enthralled by the hermit crabs.

chancho!

felicitaciones, barry y sofia :)

i love you guys!!!

welcome home, kid.

yeah.

sometimes when i back out of my driveway, i go over the curb.

so i can't help but notice that i am MUY bad (that means "very" bad) at updating things. and now sofia is practically *yelling* at me, so i figured i better at least put something. although she should be a little more grateful, if you ask me; i have stayed up oh so late emailing her FOTOS, even though she refuses to include the best one in her IMOVIE!
hmmmmmmm........... if i were ruder i might even post such FOTO on this here blog... but i am looking forward to being in her wedding, so i suppose i should probably postpone that ;)

so it seems like everything is always so busy. and maybe it is. last weekend i saw christmas lights in oshkosh and i heart christmas lights in oshkosh. it was so fun...... with the vince guaraldi soundtracking action..................................................... last night me and mike (other mike) drove around fort checking out the christmas lights. we were sorely disappointed. there is one pretty sweet part of town, but the rest was quite the let-down. i don't know what people are thinking, ugh! i'm kidding--i don't even have my christmas tree up yet. part of me is thinking i won't put it up at all, but that is lame. then part of me is thinking maybe i'll just put it up and leave it up all year, even though *some* people would be very disgusted by that.

hmm.
barold leaves for ecuador in like 4 days! how crazy is that! that must mean that i leave in.. 11? is that right? wow!
yikes....................................................... hmmmmm i need to go to sleep.

ps look it's me and my pretty sister on her wedding day!
i hope anyone and everyone is well.