Fiestas de Banos

Mt. Tungurahua



Amazonian Dancers.



Dance Dance Dance.



Three women walking to the Baths.

Happy Turkey Day

Mac and Meghan are thankful for all of our family and friends.... especially Jackie and Michael Riddick, our only blog supporters. :) Love you guys!

Puyo, Ecuador (Amazon Basin)

La Playa, Ecuador

Anthony Bourdain was staying at our hotel while filming his show "No Reservations".

Blue footed booby

Surfing in Montanita.

Deep sea fishing off the coast of Puerto Lopez.

Learning to surf in Montanita.

Mindo, Ecuador (Cloud Forest)

The view over the cloud forest.

The red chested tucanette.

Meghan zip-lining upside down in the cloud forest.

Trekking in the cloud forest, going up a log bridge.

Around Quito and Otavalo

View of a bonita iglesia from our hotel in Otavalo.

El Lechero, the magic tree of Otavalo... bringing healing powers to Meghan's broken liver.

Us at "la Mitad del Mundo". AKA the middle of the world!

Nosotros Familia. MJ, Rose, Sebass and Catti behind the camera.

Our Guard dogs, Matteo, Rocky and of course Beethoven.

The view of Cotopaxi from our terrace.

Banos, Ecuador (Yes that means bathroom, or Baths)

A beautiful view of Banos, atop an Andean peak.

Meghan and Mac with a cute Ecuadorian kid... until he robbed us at knife point an hour later, taking $27 USD and three pieces of JuicyFruit gum.

Mac zipping across the valley to play with Puma cubs and eat dung beetles.

Meghan by the Waterfall de la Virgen... this is the 3rd wonder of the ancient Inca world. Two minutes later Meghan was kicked by a donkey and she was unconcious for 36 seconds. Crazy huh?

Yes in case you were wondering most of that was made up...except Banos really does mean bathroom. We just wanted to make sure you were actually reading our blog. Must be the altitude getting to us! :-)

Quito Ecuador

The terrace of our new home in Quito (Simon's House)

Houston Airport (on our way to Quito).... need we say more?

Around Kenya

Hi Everyone,
It has been a while since we have posted any new pictures, but now we have LOTS! Our moms have been visiting us in Kenya for the past three weeks. We showed them the true sides of Kenya... the slums of Nairobi, the coastal island of Lamu, our home in Dunga and then off to the Masai Mara for a Safari. We miss you all and hope you enjoy the pictures!

Dunga, Kenya (Pictures...Finally)

The high school where our sponsored student Kennedy attends. It is a boarding school 4 hours from Kisumu.

Sunset over Lake Victoria.

Our neighbor boys, Vincent, David, Steve and Walle. We spend lots of time playing with them.

Nykogada the girl we are going to smuggle home. She is our neightbor.

Home sweet home... our little quest house.

Giving de-worming pills to the school children.

Dunga, Kenya

Hello Everyone,

Sorry we have been slacking... but the internet in Kenya is VERY slow, so we have not been able to upload any pictures or even log on to the blog. We have been traveling around Kisumu and Dunga for the past week and are really enjoying it! We spent two nights in the hill villages surrounding Kisumu visiting some of Susie's host family. We have had some interesting experiences, we've seen SO many things, six people diagnosed with HIV/AID in a matter of hours at a small clinic, a woman sitting next to us on a bus had a seizure, we saw a baby goat born in front of our house in Dunga, hippos in the lake next to our house, and last night a bat came into the house while we were watching a movie. All in all we have been enjoying our new experiences and we are very excited to start working full time tomorrow. We love you all and hope you are ALL doing well.

Nairobi, Kenya

We have been in Nairobi, Kenya now for 2 days and have been doing well. We are with are friend Susie Marks who has been to Kenya many times... so we are having a good time and meeting all of her Kenyan friends. (VERY NICE PEOPLE) Today we went to a large slum where Susie works for the Hamomi Center, we walked around and met the people there. We feel very safe here! We are planning on staying about one week here and hopfully helping at Hamomi, then heading North to Kisumu... then to Dunga where we will be volunteering for 6 months. We love you ALL!!!

p.s. we will try and upload pictures in a few days.... but the internet isn't very fast.