Hello all!
Unfortunately no pictures this time as we´ve been mainly visiting churches/museums that don´t allow them. However, I´ll try to describe the best bits quickly. So the first church we went to was La iglesia de la compania de jesus, which was pretty much made of gold. No joke, it kinda hurt the eyes, you can´t imagine the vast amounts of gold that went into this place... like most important/impressive things here, it´s extremely grandoise. It was absolutely amazing though, it helped to understand the extreme importance of churches in Ecuador (especially when you consider how many people would be fed and housed if that church was sold off).
The other major church was de Santo Fransisco, which was the first church in Quito (catholic). It´s a museum-church, though it still houses 42 monks. It´s quite amazing, the combination of Incan and Catholic religion... they put a big window at the back of the main church area so that the sun shone on the altar at certain points. Thus it showed that the Incan sun god worshiped christ. Anyways, salsa classes start! Lots of love!
-Dawn
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Hey sweetie, and Clay too! Glad you are having a great time. Richenda said you were planning on leaving Quito (think I have finally learned how to spell that without looking) today, so let us know where you are headed and enjoy the change. Loads of love, hugs, kisses and prayers, mom.
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