The Pope has arrived in Quito!

Pope Francisco arrived in Quito about an hour ago. He's going to speak on Tuesday morning at 10:30 less than 1 km away from my house. People here are going nuts over this, myself included. Huge event for Ecuador.

Pic of his arrival:


Reference: My house is the blue circle and I marked where the Pope will be speaking. Pretty cool that it's within walking distance for me




Oh and keep the "F religion" comments to yourself, I don't wanna hear it

Love the Pope-mobile and I'm not even Catholic

That's awesome. Once in a lifetime experience

The park has already opened and hundreds of thousands are already inside waiting. Friends and I are heading over at 4am..hope we'll still be able to see him. Can't wait

The Pantry wrote:Love the Pope-mobile and I'm not even Catholic

I thought this Pope mothballed the Popemobile. Apparently not.

Tim Wakefield wrote:The park has already opened and hundreds of thousands are already inside waiting. Friends and I are heading over at 4am..hope we'll still be able to see him. Can't wait

Tell people you are tSwill ambassador and that should help.

Tim Wakefield wrote:The park has already opened and hundreds of thousands are already inside waiting. Friends and I are heading over at 4am...hope we'll still be able to see him. Can't wait

Four in the morning???7?? Is that when His Emminence gets out of the bar?

Floyd Robertson wrote:

Tim Wakefield wrote:The park has already opened and hundreds of thousands are already inside waiting. Friends and I are heading over at 4am..hope we'll still be able to see him. Can't wait

Tell people you are tSwill ambassador and that should help.

Let's send him a press pass

I'll just mention Bob, his influence within the Catholic church and love for religion should be enough to get me to the front. Pope speaks at 11am but people have been lining up since last night so we figured we'd get there early.

Poll question for tSwll: should we try bringing beers into the park or no? 7 hours is a long time to wait.

Just bring water and see what this Pope can do

Where's the update?

CORNER BLITZ wrote:Just bring water and see what this Pope can do

Tim Wakefield wrote:I'll just mention Bob, his influence within the Catholic church and love for religion should be enough to get me to the front. Pope speaks at 11am but people have been lining up since last night so we figured we'd get there early.

Poll question for tSwll: should we try bringing beers into the park or no? 7 hours is a long time to wait.

WTF do you mean should?

Wow, what a day. Papa Francisco drove by less than 10 feet from me and we made eye contact. Not Catholic but it was still really cool. It was also cool to see how big of a moment it was for the ecuadorians.

Once we got inside the park (aka the old airport) we were too far away to see anything in person so we watched on a giant TV. Official estimate = 1.5 million people. It was insane..two full runways were jam packed. I'll attach some pics when I get to my laptop. Overall an A+ day.

No hot nuns and yes we brought beer. Security was a joke

When did the Popemobile become a Jeep?

hide the little boys!!

The Pope is a baller - he's got a fleet of Popemobiles. Benz, Jeep, Hyundai

looks like someone defaced the pope mural in Bolivia..

Tim Wakefield wrote:No hot nuns and yes we brought beer. Security was a joke

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Robert J Sakimano wrote:hide the little boys!!

Woaaaah