Making A Dream Come True

About 5 years ago Walt and I started planning our retirement in Ecuador. A lot can happen in 5 years. Six or eight months after Walt died I decided I still wanted to investigate the possibility of living in a foreign country.  So, skip ahead a year and a half, selling a piece of property in Kansas, intense research and convincing my friend Sherry to go with me and here we are in Otavalo, Ecuador.
The trip here could have convinced me that I was barking up the wrong tree.  It took almost 20 hours, 3 different planes.  The planes were crowded and the flights were long and they lost one of Sherry's bags.  Sherry has been a trooper with only one shirt [the one she was wearing] an extra pair of pants and she had to buy pantaloones the first day we were here.  
As promised by the brother here in the Atuntaque congregation we were met at the Quito airport and driven the 2 hours to the apartment in Otavalo.  That was an interesting ride and I think the driver was being respectful of our foriegn feelings and didn't pass on as many blind curves and double yellow lines as he would have liked to.  We pulled into a narrow street [they all are] next to the pharmacy.  There was an ornate wooden door with an interesting knocker.  Behind that door was a long hall, a flight of stairs [to another apartment] and then the door to our apartment.  We were met by Charie, a 70 year old sister who has lived here 4 yrs.  She is in the sign language congregation.  She has been such a blessing to us, showing us around the town and introducing us to all she knows.  
We actually arrived here early Thursday morning, today is Saturday, but it feels like we have been here a week at least.  Thursday, after being introduced to our favorite "hang out", a coffee, sandwich, pastry shop owned by a young brother and sister [couple] from the US, we came back to the apartment and took a 2 hour nap.  We got up and took a shower then went out and looked around a bit before we went back to the coffee shop. We weren't able to get on the internet at the apartment yet so we hung out at the coffee shop a lot until we were connected at home.  Sherry kept referring to things that had happened that morning as yesterday.  I would correct her, but she always seemed a little confused.  Finally we figured it out when I realized that she thought we had slept the day and night away and it was the next morning.  Poor thing was so disappointed to find out that she had only slept 2 hours. 
Don't want to overwhelm so I will write more tomorrow.