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| The Basilica |
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| A pretty street |
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| Santo Domigo Church |
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| The Basilica |
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| The Basilica |
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| Turtles on the church. Corrie I took this one for you. |
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| The fountain in front of the Basilica |
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| Pretty Fountain Square |
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| Our new church |
Sunday, January 19, 2014
Churches
Today we tried out a new church. It was much easier to walk to and a very friendly church. The best part is that we did not have to walk up a mountain like last week. The service was very nice and we had a guide to follow, which made understanding what was being said much easier. After we went to Mass, we decided to go explore Old Town in Quito. There was a lot to see and we only got to some of it, but it was really interesting. There are stores everywhere with a variety of things. One store was so packed full of shoes you could hardly even enter the store. It kind of reminded me of a mixture of New Orleans and New York. People were everywhere buying and selling things. It was a gorgeous day and pretty much every corner had music either from a band or from a radio. We saw the place where they are building a subway that is set to open in 2015 which will be nice. There were bike riders everywhere and places for them to ride on the streets. You could rent bikes at different places too which we may try one day. We walked around to four different churches in the area and saw some really pretty buildings. The thing we noticed the most in the churches was their devotion to religious icons. Every church had people outside selling flowers, candles, rosaries and prayer cards to be place in front of the many icons inside the church. Some of the churches did not allow pictures on the inside and the outsides could be mistaken for just another building so there are not as many pictures as I had hoped. The most beautiful church was the Basilica. It was mostly carved stone and it was huge. It had really cool carvings on the outside too. Lucas and Melayna would say that their favorite part was eating ice cream on the street, and the ice cream is only 50 cents so it was too cheap to pass up. We had another fun day.
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ReplyDeleteHey sister! Glad to read you found a church you can understand. Looks like it sure was pretty Sunday. I cant say the Ville offers anything like your scenery. Even the back of the fountain is fancy. Talk soon.
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