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Sunday was election day

Sunday was election day here in Ecuador. I haven't heard of any results yet. Actually, I don't know how it will affect us either way who is elected president. It was a peaceful day in Shell, but the week leading up to it was full of political rallys and parades. It's really nice and quiet now that people aren't driving around Shell blaring campaign messages through large speakers on the top of vehicles.

I took the boys swimming at the Alpayacu on Sunday afternoon. This time we went on a different road and end up much farther up the river than usual. It was a deserted spot really. The swimming wasn't that great, but it was fun to explore a different place and play in the current and on the rocks. Taylor came across a really big spider. I think those are baby spiders that you can see in that close-up photo.

I'm really happy that the e-mail server is up and running again. I still need to work on it, but for now it will do. Eventually I may need to replace one of the three hard drives. I have been helping the HCJB folks down here in Shell get a web site going for the hospital. We're at the point where we want the site listed with the search engines. I did a search for 'shell ecuador hospital' and came up with nothing for the hospital site, but quite a few pages from my web site. And then there was also this one. I have now idea just yet where they got that info from, but it's mostly true. I didn't set up the connection to HCJB for internet. That was already done when I got here.