A break day

Today was an off day so to speak. We were not going to the mountains to work but to travel to the north to visit three communities. Each of these communities were unique.
Otavalo has a huge open market where people sell their crafts. This is a large city and some of the merchants travel all over the world selling their crafts, blankets, hats, scarves, paintings, musical instruments etc. They have wonderful things to sell and all at reasonable prices. The people here in Otavalo and all over this are of Ecuador tend to wear their traditional clothes full of bright colors. Not for tourism but it is just a way of life to them. They are proud of their heritage. It is also not because they are behind the times as a large number are using cell phones and are modern in their approach to business etc. A more western style of dress is starting to come into the younger ones but it is still predominately traditional.
In San Antonio de Ibarra we found a town half asleep for siesta but here we found a town full off wood crafts which I enjoyed a lot. Then on to Cotacachi were the shops were full of leather goods. It was a day to pick up some memories of our time here and have a break.
In the evening we put the final touches on the children’s program we will be doing tomorrow. There were lots of questions because of all the rain we didn’t know where we would be able to do it and if the children would come and how many but we knew the Lord would take care of the details.
Trusting Him we ended our day very much looking forward to the next and what God had in store. D