Everyday in Cotacachi

Hi - it’s Kaia!  It’s finally MY turn to write the blog.  Instead of renting a hotel, we rented an apartment!  It’s the best apartment I’ve ever been in!  

I like our apartment because

• -         it has a big back yard and we can run around with Quilo in it,
• -         it has 3 flat screen TVs (we don't even have one in MN!),
• -         we have one bathroom with a bathtub with WARM WATER and one bathroom with a warm shower,
• -         and we can climb trees.

Come visit us.  We will live here for 5 weeks.  I’ve never had such a good room and me and Niko sleep together.  It’s very noisy in the morning outside.  It sounds like someone taking a stick and banging a piece of metal to wake someone up.  Outside our windows I see a house and church and Cotacachi Volcano on one side, and on the other I see an apartment, a big yard, and Imbabura Volcano.  Don’t worry, they won’t explode when we’re here, they're dead.

We know someone who goes to the school next door.  He’s a very nice boy named Luisito (Little Luis, his papa is Big Luis) who is fun to play with.  We went to another apartment and we went up in the very top on the roof and we found a ladder going up. We climbed up into it and it was a cooooooooool hideout.  I let Luisito walk Quilo the whole time I saw him.

I think Cotacachi is pretty cool because it has a nice view and is usually sunny.  The streets have a couple of holes in them and most of the streets are very filled with cars. 

Here are two videos for you to watch: one on Quilo, and one on the parade yesterday in Cotacachi.  I thought the parade was awesome.  It was a little too noisy for me since I almost never go to one, but otherwise awesome because I got to see people getting bumped into by a bull, lots of instruments, and bands, and people riding on the backs of trucks. Imagine if that bull came after kids on tricycles at the 4th of July parade in St. Anthony Park!  That would be CRAZY!

Adios amigas and amigos!

Kaia