Many hours of research, and I mean many, many hours, went into the planning of our scouting trip to Ecuador. After lurking on many forums, yes, lurking, I started posting, asking various questions, from car rental to a fun place to hang out, to...well, everything. As a result of those many hours of research, we decided to focus on Salinas up to Montanita. Okay, so if you have read other posts on my blog, you already know this.
But what you don't know: on several expat forums, people were talking about a fun hangout called Will's Place (the local expats all know it by that name), or Hostal Aqui/Score Sports Bar. We were invited through several of the forums to come by on July 4th for Will's 2nd Annual 4th of July party complete with a pig roast and fireworks on the beach. We thought, why not? Sounds like a blast. Might be nice to meet other Norte Americanos that have made Salinas their home, we can see what our future neighbors are like, not to mention ordering food without embarrassing ourselves with our very childlike Spanish!
Since we were traveling with my 17 yr old son Alec, and he is a sports nut and of course loves a good hamburger, why not pay them a visit?
We were always greeted in a very friendly manner -
Our first night, after a really long day traveling from Guayaquil, we stopped by Will's Place and enjoyed a great meal, and I had a few margaritas :)
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| Kid's happy, everyone is happy... |
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| It was full when I got it. Yes, it had jalapenos in it! |
A few pics from their 4th of July party -
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| chatting with Kimberly and Hector |
They had a nice crowd, everyone brought a dish to share, and the roasted pig, mercy it was yummy!
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| Alec posting on Facebook how he is a party animal in Ecuador |
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| Showing his Patriotism |
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| HUGE fireworks display on the beach. What a blast! |
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Cheers,
Tami
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the food and Will and Wendy´s.
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Yes we are the crazy ones renovating a ruin in Ecuador. I remember meeting your Husband and sharing information about Ecuador. He saw the stack of International Living magazines on the table in our waiting area and wondered who they belonged to. It was great to discover that in the small town of Huntsville there are actually two families that are migrating to Ecuador and no it didn't have anything to do with mission work.
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