Greetings friends and family. This post is out of sequence simply because I did not have enough time to catch up on our adventure in Cuenca before we head out to our next Ecuadorian destination. I have so much more to tell you about Cuenca but it will have to wait until we return from Hacienda Zuleta.

Hacienda Zuleta is a farm / Condor retreat near Otavalo. Tod hired a driver to pick us up at 9:00 this morning for the 2 – 3 hour trip to the Condor retreat. This trip is an early birthday present for me as I wanted to have a picnic lunch with the Lamas and Condors in this legendary setting. Our friend Bonnie told us about how wonderful this place is so we looked it up on-line and found a small window of time where we had no other “outings” planned and booked the trip.

(Don’t worry, we are not missing the Packer game – Tod is taping it so we will watch it in place of Monday night football. Please don’t text or email either of us about the game highlights or score.)

Off to finish getting ready as our driver will be here within the hour. What an awesome birthday this will be! (How do you think Tod will ever top this birthday gift? He has a year to plan:)

Until our next post, be well and remember, life is too short to drink bad coffee!