Trip to the coast and graduation celebration

This morning I woke up relatively early in order to go with Patrico Jr., Pablo and Daniel (a complicated Izurieta family link) for the first time out of the Andes on what Ecuadorians call the coast(Even though it's not on the coast, it's just on the west of the Andes).
They picked me up around 7:30am and we drove for hours to go to a hacienda which produces giant bamboo, a very new agricultural product.
On the road to the hacienda, we drove down the mountains through undescribably beautiful mountain landscapes.
Once at the bottom of the mountain, the landscape changed radically. I was surrounded by tropical landscapes. For the first time in my life I chewed cane sugar, it’s quite tasty but for two seconds. Once you’ve chewed it, you through it away.
Then, after a four hours drive, we got to the giant bamboo plantation. Patricio Jr. required a lot of information, because he wishes to start growing this kind of bamboo, so for over an hour he asked questions to blond Ecuadorian. A very rare specimen, but to tell you the truth, he originally was from Holland.
After the visit, lunch and long drive back home. As we got in the Andes, we had to drive through a very heavy fog, it seemed very usual to Patricio Jr. who was driving, but to me it seemed like we had entered a scenery of creepy movie.
As soon as they dropped me home, Toya, Fabian and I had dinner. While we were having dessert the phone rang. It was Ricardo who was calling us to tell us that his son Ricardo Jr. had just graduated and is know a doctor in law. So we all were invited at their home to celebrate. It was enjoyable to see the entire family celebrating such an event. For the second time in the evening I had dinner. I ate in the kitchen with the younger generation which included people up to thirty five. Patricio Jr. was a lot fun, for some time he was imitating some of his uncles as they fall asleep. After dinner everybody was drinking and laughing, the new doctorate was even trying to get everyone down a shot of whisky. Great celebration!