Too Fly to Pass By

After our day in Otavalo, furing our reflection time, we displayed all the things that we bought - we had a little "show and tell". (We took pictures, but the kids asked me to not post the photos because so much of what they bought is intended as gifts :) For our journaling exercise, I asked them to reflect upon all we saw on the way to Otavalo;  the different countysides we saw on the three hour drive, how the landscapes changed, the way the people looked and dressed differently than here the closer you get to Otavalo. There is a greater indigeous influence the further away you get from Quito (that's not the say that there's no indigeous influence in Quito). Otavalo is an amazing place, the people come from all over the countryside to display and more importantly to sell there items - many of which are hand-made. As we were sharing all of our purchases, someone shared that their items were "too fly to pass by"!