The Animals in Ecuador!

To: Friends

From: Reese

I am so happy to go to Ecuador.  I am really excited too!  I hope that we can see each other again.  There are so many animals in Ecuador!  You should have seen how many there were.  There were toucans and poison frogs and the blue-morpho butterfly and butterflies that look like owl eyes!  

An indigenous man, Fermin, holding an owl butterfly!! 

My sister and I call Quito "The Stinky City" because the air smells so bad! This is where my Mom and Dad are going for a meeting tomorrow. I am going to stay in Denver with Breanna and her dog Sadey and Laura and Viki and my friends Gwennie and Maggie.  

We are moving in August.  I feel so excited and I hope that you will be excited too to see all my journeys.

Mom and Dad Are Going to Ecuador - Tomorrow!

Dear friends,

On Friday May 16th my mom and dad are going to Ecuador for a meeting.  I, Georgia, was a little jealous of them.  It was not fair that they could go to Ecuador and I didn't get to go.  It helped me though when my Mom said they were just going to Quito, what Reese and I call "The Stinky City", not Shell where I'm going to live.

We on track to leave for language school in August.  We are going to sell our house after school is done. I'm sort of sad because I haven't moved fully before.  After we sell the house we are going to spend the WHOLE SUMMER at my Grandma and Grandpa's house!  It has a lake and Mom says I will get to swim in it every day.

We're all set to go to Ecuador.
Georgia