I am still mostly house-bound. Living in Cuenca, but I might as well be back in California, since I barely get outside the condo. I got a bit of taste of Ecuador today when Evelyn brought home take-out from a local lunch place today though — El Tunel.  This is a very popular place that was a very long walk from where we stayed last year, but now is just over a block away. The lunch menu changes everyday at pretty much every restaurant, though the format is the same.  As you can see from the board above, it is a sizable meal for $2.50.  They charge an extra 25 cents for take-out containers.  When it was opened on our dining room table, here is what I saw:

That bag top-center is the juice. The soup was a delicious broth with spinach and potato strips. Main course was rice, salad, chicken with a tastey sauce over it.  Overall, the taste reminded me of where I was, and made me all the more anxious to get this cast off.

Later that evening, I was sitting in our office, as the sun began setting. We have a Western facing office, which can get a bit warm in the afternoon, so we open the window. There were some clouds in the sky, which is pretty common here in the Andes. Suddenly, I pointed out to Evelyn that a God Beam was forming:

The sun sets fast here at 8,200 ft elevation at the equator, and five minutes later we saw the sun disappear with a last flash of light: