Since Trin's internship was a little slow last week, we decided to go to Cuenca and Loja, two cities in the Sierra (mountainous) region of Ecuador.  Cuenca is a beautiful, colonial city known for making the famous Panama (should be 'Ecuadorian') Hats.  Here are a couple of highlights from Cuenca:

The main church in downtown Cuenca- they say the belfries are short because the domes were too heavy... a minor architectural error in our opinion

Trying on Panama Hats in Cuenca

They made this hat just for Marshall!

You can buy a little chick for 50 cents!

Beautiful fruit

Yep, for those of you who had guinea pigs as pets, here in Cuenca 'cuy' is a delicacy

Lots of 100% dark chocolate

View from a rooftop

 After Cuenca we headed 4 hours south to Loja, which is a smaller city surrounded by huge mountains.  We stayed with Trinity's director Kennedy and his family.  On Father's Day, we took a trip to the Amazons where we ate sausage and yuca and swam in this freezing cold waterfall!

We passed sooo many waterfalls going down the mountain!

Marsh and Kennedy (yup, he's named after JFK- and he named his son John Kennedy to seal the deal)

Marsh and Trin holding on for dear life... The waterfall was so cold and so strong!

Deliciously sweet sugar cane