“Did you get her number?”
“No, but I stole her heart. ”

-Freddie, keeping his eyes on the prize

“I got a haircut, got a book, got a wife. Not too bad for Thursday.”
“I got an ice cream.”

-Freddie and Amy Cao comparing their day

“Super, super, duper, one hundred percent big happy.”
“Crocodile.”

-Freddie’s Korean kindergarteners telling him how they felt

“I prefer singing and dancing at gay clubs, not in classrooms”

-Freddie, on his likes and dislikes

As we reported earlier, our camera was stolen recently.

You can probably imagine that it’s kind of hard to make a show about living abroad without a video camera.

And so much has happened! Laurene quit her job, Ryan and I took a boat ride on a lake named after a guinea pig, Ryan and Freddie went to the coast, I found a job, Laurene started looking for other jobs, Ryan got thrown into a jail on wheels, the boys went on an Indiana Jones adventure in the jungle, the World Cup began. And so on. All those little things like Life.

While the powers-that-be behind Jet Set Zero have been researching every possibility to get us a new camera as soon as possible, they’ve encountered headaches and hurdles like customs, duties paperwork, and exorbitant shipping costs.

Enter creative solution #1: Find a courier to fly down with the camera.

I jumped on the horn (ok, the internet) and contacted my best friend Amy Cao, a food writer and blogger in NYC. Would she be available to fly down to Quito with the camera on a moment’s notice? An email response from her later, it was a done deal.

She arrives tonight into Quito, and the show will go on!

Food writer Amy Cao arriving in Quito soon!