Quick Recap

There's not a lot of time to write this post.  We're leaving in about an hour to head to El Monte Sustainable Lodge out of Mindo, which is an eco-lodge in the cloud forest, for a couple of days.  It's doubtful we'll have any Internet access there, but we'll try to organize our thoughts to post here when we can.

Meanwhile, a quick recap of what we've been doing in the last couple of days:

* We visited the town of Otovalo on Saturday, wandering through their weekly crafts market and eating a tasty blackberry pie at a little pie shop.  View pictures here.

* We ate dinner Sunday at NOE, which is a really good sushi restaurant here in Quito.  The rolls were large and tasty, and the place had a really cool ambiance.

* We climbed up the hill of Itchimbía, where there's an awesome park with a 360 degree view of Quito as well as a great walk through the park that goes into restored Andean habitat.  Here are some pictures we took, a video of Karla talking about getting to the park, and a video of me attempting to explain the Intihuatana area of the park.

* We had dinner in the fog/rain at this cool bar-cafe-pizza shop called Ananké Guápulo last night, in the windy neighborhood on a hill of  Guápulo.  It was a great place to hang out - we were upstairs in one of their more intimate rooms - and be away from the crazy tourists.