Adios amigos

Ted has gone through and added some photos to older postings for your viewing-

Well, it's almost 7 pm and we are back at our hotel in Quito. Our flight departs at 11:30 pm eastern time tonight. We are to take a shuttle at 8:30 which will drop us off at the airport. They are serving dinner in our hotel beginning at 7 so we are busy getting ready and packing everything up yet again before we head down for dinner.
Our flight back again was quite turbulent. I was mildly freaking out for the first hour.
We'll make it back to Moline at 9:30 tomorrow am.
The trip was more than words can describe. Pictures do some justice, but to capture every moment that made your mouth drop is difficult. Ted now has over 1500 pictures to sort through. He turned out to be quite the photographer and even had some people asking for photos he snapped. Celebrity Cruiseline gave us a DVD of the photos they took of us on the trip which was a nice little keepsake.
Last night we ended up at a dinner table by ourselves before another couple who we had met on the first day and were traveling with her sister and family, invited us over to their table. The kids had gone to eat with some other youngsters so it was just the six of us. I had gathered earlier that one was a doctor, but unsure what kind. I imagine his wife stays at home. This gals sister, Mary, was quite interesting. Ted asked her (Mary is her name) what her and her husband did for a living. Now, before she replied, I would have put her age at late 30's, early 40's. Apparently she started her own business relating to pharmacuticals and then sold the company and is now retired. Her age-49! I wish I would've asked more questions relating to it, but we did not. Instead we started talking about traveling. Now that they are retired, and they never had kids, they travel quite frequently. We got on the subject of safaris at one point. Mary and her husband have been on 7, yes 7, safaris! My jaw probably dropped to my knees. I'd say she probably made out pretty good if she has been on 7 safaris on top of numrerous other trips. Her and her husband were heading to Chennai, India (where I traveled this fall for work) a few months from now. I'd say they are world travelers:-)
Other than that, I should probably wrap this up. We will probably post a few additional photos when we return or out on a website and if interested, you can always look through them.
Thanks for following our blog. Unfortunatley Ted did not do anything crazy or stupid for me to write about so this trip has been pretty mild reading.

Adios and see many of you very soon!