We're good at surprises!

So I have not blogged in quite sometime, sorry for everyone who has been checking and there has been nothing new!
So I have quite a few posts coming in the next few days but I will try to keep them relatively short!

So Meghan who is our program facilitator could not stay for the whole length of the program becuase of work in Winnipeg. Since the second week the group decided that we would have a nice dinner for Meghan on her final night in Quito. Then we decided that it would be fun to make it a surprise! We we're going to Mindo for her final weekend here so we had to plan it for Thursday!

So we talked to the hotel staff to get them in on the surprise, and still Meghan had no idea... we went shopping on Wednesday night to buy tons of food for the BBQ that we were going to have on our rooftop!

Thursday rolled around, and Blair's job was to keep Meghan occupied until 6pm and then bring her up to the roof. We started prepping around 3 and as the afternoon went on we kept coming up with neat ideas, including putting the flowers we bought her in 10 empty beer bottles, compliments of the boys! Also we have all been making the fortune teller crafts with our students so we made those as centerpieces and inside we put memorable quotes from our trip.

So we all headed up to the roof and we waiting for her to walk through the door right at 6, but they must have been on Quito time becuase they were late!!

Around 625 I get a call from Meghan asking where we all were, me panicing thinking we're busted I respond with "uummm we are on the roof having drinks, you should come" Meghan sounding extremely confused says she will be right up...

So now Carlos has arrived and has to make up a reason why he has randomly showed up on a Thursday night, but he did well bluffing!!

So 630 Meghan walks through the door of the rooftop and we all scream SUPPLIES (inside joke) and instantly she has a smile on her face and we are all in an amazing mood because all of our work and planning has paid off.

We shared some tears of happiness and laughs of all our planning and mishaps and then enjoyed an incredibly delicious dinner!

It was sad that that was our last full night at the hotel with Meghan but it was a great time to show our thanks for all of her work that she has put into this trip, also I think this dinner wins the most toasts in history!

Next up MINDO where I pushed many boundaries and had a day filled with tons of adventure activities!!

Thanks for reading :)