Cuenca, Our New Home

We arrived to Guayaquil, Ecuador on Thursday, March 7th. We planned this move for a lonnng  time. It seems unbelievable  that we have already been 9 months in the country.

After arriving at the Guayaquil airport, we had a friend pick us up. Slept the night at his place and the next day, Friday, we took off to Cuenca. We used a recommended company called "Operazuay" to take us from Guayaquil to Cuenca. For $80 we were the only passengers along with our 9 bags. 3 hours later we arrived, safe and sound.

On our way to Cuenca

Finally we got to meet the Gonzalez, a family from Spain that had been serving in the country with their two kids for 3 months. This loving family offered their home until we found our own place to live. They already had a room ready for us. After we settled in they took us out to "El Turi". A high point with a view to the whole city.

 Gonzalez Family

El Turi

Saturday night we visited the closest kingdom hall and we met the Davies, the public speaker and his wife, a loving couple from Australia that has been serving in Ecuador for about 6 months. Right away they noticed we were new in town, so they invited us out. They took us to "Tutto Freddo", an Italian restaurant right across Calderon park, city center. This restaurant offers pizza, lasagna and sandwiches, among other stuff (no soup or salad though) The food was ok and the ice-cream was "awesome"!! We still come here once in a while for ice-cream. 

The Davies

Brother Davies spoke to us about an apartment available at their building. We looked at the apartment the same night. It was a 2 bedroom 1 bath apartment with tile/wood floors, granite counter tops, nice wood cabinets and custom made closets. We loved it!! And the price??? $230/month, perfect!
 We did look at other places. But most of them looked like a horror movie had been filmed there. After praying and thinking about it, we decided to go with the apartment at the Davies building.
We moved in two weeks after arriving to Ecuador. But the place looked empty, we needed to fill it up...so let the shopping start!!! I'll talk about setting up cost on another post.