Iguana Park, aptly named.

Who's that on the church roof?

Yet another childhood experience that American kids will never enjoy, sigh.

A lily among thorns.

This town is sponsored by Lily Pulitzer.

Well, we arrived safe and sound in Guayaquil!  The plane got in at midnight, and we were tucked in bed at our hostel by 1:30am.  Trinity and I spent most of today walking along the riverfront of the Guayas River, which reminded us both of the boardwalk at Myrtle Beach.  Two small hills in the distance are covered with multi-colored houses, reminiscent of some small coastal village in Italy.  The water would have been a delicious chocolate brown except for the masses of tree limbs and coconuts floating downstream.  We definitely stand out here; so far only one boy has shrunk back in terror at seeing us, and an older gentleman pointed and laughed at Marshall, saying "Oiiii! Que alto!" (wow, this guy's tall!).  Trinity learned to haggle with old taxi drivers over whether to pay $2.50 or $2 for a cab ride.  Tomorrow, we meet Trinity's supervisor, Jaime (pronounced "High-May") at 7am, who will take us to Manglaralto, to our new abode.  Overall, we like Guayaquil, but we're more excited about getting to the beach.
Our cellphone numbers are: 09-186-6416 (Marshall) and 08-885-1706 (Trinity).
We hope all is well and will post more pictures of Manglaralto!