We didn't get up too early this morning as most of Cuenca isn't open today. When we did get going we headed into town and had pancakes at O La La Creperie which was literally the only restaurant open and that closed right after we ate. There were some folks wandering about but most of them seemed to be heading to the football stadium as there was a big match being played this morning. I would have liked to have gone but we had more important things to do today, like trying to find someplace to live before they kick us out of the hotel on Tuesday morning. The manager has said that we can extend our stay but they are getting pretty full with carnaval coming and we have been told that they could ask us to leave for four days while the festivities are going on. I really don't want to be sleeping on the streets next week even if the weather is lovely and warm.
We wandered all over the old town looking for 'arrienda'. We saw lots of for rent signs but most of them were for rooms rather than apartments, or offices. We did find a few apartments for rent, some with numbers to call and some without; I'm not really sure how you're supposed to go about checking out the apartment if there's no number! We spent about three or four hours looking before heading back to the hotel to see if we had any responses to emails we'd sent about rentals - we didn't. I guess we'll try again tomorrow when everything opens back up.

Mike: We got a new cell phone just for use in Cuenca, nifty!!!