Carnaval in Baños and Ambato

Ambato and Baños were filled with espuma and fun. Everyone gets sprayed by this silly string stuff called kareoka. At least it's better than what happens in Cuenca. In Cuenca everyone throws water balloons at unsuspecting anyones. It is chaos. So we hightailed it to Ambato, the land of fruit and flowers. They had a huuuuge parade with floats just covered in fruit and flowers, murals of jesus in flower petals...and yet no fruit to eat... so i settled for pork because he was cooked with an apple in his mouth.

Speaking of killing animals, we went to a bull fight and Amy, a fellow teacher, cried. We probably should have just stuck to the chocolate fair and the art exposition, the parades and the kareoka, but we wanted the real experience.

Last picture is of the four of us. Amy, my cousins Maria Fernanda, Valeria, and then there's me.