Ecuador!?!?

 OK, the last big news in our little world....to yours : ) Weeeell, the Peace Corp has offered us the option to go to Ecuador instead of Africa! Wow! For those of you who don't know, we wanted to go to South America in the first place but they told us we couldn't because our Spanish wasn't good enough. Instead they were going to send us to Africa. We weren't very excited about that but we were going to do it. Anyhow, I guess since we are now in South America already and we are learning the language they changed their minds! We didn't even ask them to do so! This is a very pleasant surprise! We'd much rather keep learning Spanish and stay here in South America. And, everyone says Ecuador is beautiful and has a wonderful, warm climate. We don't know - we've never been there! So, the plan is that we will finish here in La Serena at the end of November. We will return to Denver at the beginning of December for a month and a half. We'll be living with Cherith's family and maybe with a friend for a little bit in Denver, as well as traveling to see Rich's family. Then, we'll leave from Ecuador, from Denver, on January 18th, 2012. Although we are happy here in Chile, we are a bit homesick and very excited to come back in December, even if it isn't permanent yet.