Friday, March 20, 2009

Another quiet day

Susan is still recovering, feeling much better, but still not wanting to stray too far from a toilet until Immodium does its job. Thus, she stays in our room and I run errands and go shopping, and post to this blog. In a way, it is really frustrating that she is not feeling well enough to go out, but on the other hand, we have a pleasant place to stay, and the weather has been more rainy here than at any other part of our trip.

We are hoping that she will feel enough better to go out tomorrow, because that is the big market day here in Otovalo, and we have been saving up on shopping. However, if it doesn´t work out, we do have a market in Quito that we can visit on our last afternoon in Ecuador on Monday, to fill things out. We have bought a few small items so far, but now we have split out our large suitcases, so we have room to pack more in.

The fruit and vegetable markets here are just amazing. Hmm... the shift key doesn´t seem to be working for any of the uppercase characters over the numbers, so no exclamation points. Oh, well. You will just have to imagine them where they belong. I don´t tend to use a lot of them anyway. Back to the markets - walking through them is a feast for the senses. The colors are diverse and brilliant, which I can photograph, but the smells and other things require that you be here. Today I bought a pound of fresh green beans, a pineapple, and a large head of broccoli, each for 50 cents. I was tempted to buy more, but space, time, and our capacity to eat them up are all limited.

So, not a lot else to say. It has been a quiet day, with rain, and even some thunder this afternoon.

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