No Cleaning Sunday

Ryan and I have a strict rule on Sundays: No Cleaning! We abide by in whole heartedly. And it's fantastic. The rule is really for me, mostly. I would always feel behind or guilty for not cleaning the house up on Sundays. A clean house is a really great way to start the week. But guess what... cleaning takes time and we decided that Sundays are fundays; the last day of the weekend for us to spend time together. So the decision was simple, there will be no cleaning on Sundays so that we have more time to spend together.

Yesterday I started the day with a nice swim in the pool. I've never thought of the pool as exercise before but goodness gracious it sure is. I always feel so tired, out of breath and sore after swimming laps in the pool. Ryan started the morning by sleeping in! To each his own =) Then we skyped with my parents. Which was good, except for one tiny part which involved my extraordinary emotional side. Oh well, it's certainly a part of me, so I guess I should, and everyone else should, just accept it!

Then we took Chuki to the park (Metropolitano). It's good for all of our souls to spend time outside of the city. It's refreshing and relaxing and rejuvinating all in one. Plus after an hour running around in the sun, Chuki literally sleeps ALL DAY, only getting up to eat and to change rooms when we change rooms.

After the park we left Chuki at home and went to drop off our towels at the laundry mat. Can I tell you what a treat it is to have our towels washed in a machine by someone else! Best $5 I spent all day! Then Ryan and I headed to the park (Carolina) for lunch. It was gorgeous out yesterday. I wore a tank top without a sweater! Ryan wore shorts! It was perfect! We started with juices at the juice stand. Pineapple, orange, strawberry for me. Orange, strawberry and naranjilla for Ryan. Delicious! Then we moved to one of the restaurants in the park because we had heard that there was great fish, but we decided it was too expensive. So we went over to the cevichocho area. Ryan had a large, I had a medium! It was great, except I always forget to ask for no tostado. So I end up having to pick it out. Then we split a pincho (like a kebab with sausage, a potato and a chicken piece). SO SO GOOD.

It started to rain while we were eating our pincho so we hung out under a tree and finished it. Then we ran across the street to the pet store to buy Chuki's water bottle for his cage, pee pads and a new ID tag. They didn't have the pee pads so were going to have to buy regular diapers to line the bottom of his crate with. Should be interesting. This week we'll get the diapers, the tag engraved and buy a new collar (one that snaps shut).

We picked up our laundry and headed home. We wanted to take a nap and watch a movie but we ended up watching LOST Season 2 disks 1 and 2. Needless to say we didn't fall asleep. Ryan made an amazing dinner of coconut and passionfruit chicken over rice! While it was cooking we slipped outside to watch one of the best sunsets we've seen in Quito in a while! Then we came back in to eat. Seriously, it was SO SO SO good! Kind of spicy, very tangy... mmm!

Then we went to bed. All in all a great Sunday, but certainly no time for cleaning. That's what we'll do today in between classes. I've already swept and picked everything up. All that needs to be done is dishes and laundry. YIKES!

MULUB,

Taylor