Dec Walking -- Quito, Cuenca and Paute

Another fast and fun trip to Quito.

Flowers are in bloom there, too!

 

Some rain.

Christmas at the malls.

 

Fun Street art.

A Nativity scene.  Notice the napkin over the manger and Baby Jesus.  The cover will be removed on Christmas Eve!

 

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This is what our community in the Southern Andes looks like in December with our upside-down weather (opposite from the Northern Hemisphere ):

 

Flowers! Pictures taken in Cuenca and Paute.

 

No snow.

 

 

 

Christmas vendors and school girls in front of the New Cathedral.

 

Street art.

 

Shop with a great name!

 

Costume shop with Santa.

 

Nativity at the Mall.

 

 

 

 

These look like goats, but they are African Sheep.  (Bred for meat, not wool.)

 It's the season for babies!

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We are wishing friends and family a Very, Merry Holiday Season., full of Hope and Joy.