Tiestro is our favorite high-end restaurant in Cuenca.  They are not open on either Sunday or Monday though, so we decided to extend our anniversary celebrations to having dinner there tonight.  Their Loma Fino con Tocina (filet mignon with bacon) is probably the best we have had anywhere in the world. We also had langostino, which they often refer here as lobster, but is really more of a crayfish.

We told Juan Carlos (the chef & owner) that it was our anniversary, and he gave us a special desert.  That is a white plate on which he painted the flowers and candle with raspberry and chocolot sauce.

I gave a schedule of church festivities a few days ago, courtesy of Regina talking to the local archdiocese. That included several children parades, but did not include the movement of the Baby Jesus statue we had heard of.  As we walked into a church recently, we discovered they had the entire schedule on the wall of their vestibule!  It showed 67 churches, with each church having the statue for 4 days.

This is pretty hard to read here on the blog, so I combined all the 2012 and 2013 info I have found and put it together as a zip file.  You can download it and see the files more clearly at:

www.mindstormphoto.com/xfr/cuenca_church_2012.zip

Also, I read a tech story this week saying that Google Maps has returned to the iPhone as a free app.  I downloaded it and tried it out today.  Much to my surprise, they have Cuenca!  None of the other map services we had tested before coming included Ecuador.  As a test, I put in the address of Tiestro (the restaurant we went to tonight) and told it that we wanted to walk there.  Google Maps found where we were properly (in our apartment) and showed the same route we would normally take.  It also said that we would need 18 minutes to get there. We left at 6:03 and arrived at 6:21, so it was right on the money.

Sweet!  Now maybe I won’t get as lost in town as often… 🙂