Feliz navidad!!!

Sorry - we've been busy settling into our new apartment and have not taken the time to post new pics. We moved on Dec. 1 to a new-ish apartment in El Batan, a 20-minute walk from school (uphill, both ways, by the way...?! - so it is good for exercise for me :) ). The apartment was completely unfurnished, except for the built-in stove and oven. We had to buy fridge, washer/dryer, bed, sofa, dining suite and guest room furniture, kitchenware, etc., within 3 weeks, so we have been a tad busy!!! Anyway, now we are all set up and ready for visitors. Our first guests (Torsten, Kelly and Amelia) arrived last Sunday night - fleeing the bone-chilling minus degrees and deep snows of Alberta. It is wonderful to have life in our apartment.

There's new life in our apartment!

Amelia passes up Ole's special Ecuadorian Fish in Peanut sauce,
with yuca and corn ...for something she knows - milk.

...but she does like to pick the avocado out of the salad.

Christmas in the main square in Otavalo - on our weekend visit.

Casa Sol - an indigenous-run guest house in Peguche, just outside
Otavalo.



By the way, this is the view from our bedroom window.
(Do you understand why we moved?)



We look out over the whole of north Quito, including the airport.