W-E up North with Toya and Fabian

This morning Toya Fabian and I leave at 9:00am for a w-e up North together to the Imbabura province. I slept the entire trip until we got to Otavalo. There is a very nice colorful and indigenous artisan market in the city which especially animated on Saturdays. We wondered around bought a couple things that we had to bargain every time for half the required price.
Sometimes for them to lower the price, we even needed to say that we weren’t greengos (US Americans). Yep, the province is touristful and the locals take advantage of it, absolutely normal. We then drove to Ibarra, which is a neighboring city to see statue Toya’s grandfather, he has been an eminent figure for the small city and a nationwide famous lawyer. But we didn’t only go for that, we also had a delicious pailla ice cream. It’s called an ice cream, but there actually is no cream, it’s only the juice of the fruit that is frozen, delicious!
After what, we drove a little further to the village of San Antonio which is reputed for its handicrafts on wood. We visited a couple shops, and left, no more. We once again drove to a rally racing track which actually goes all around the San Pablo lake.
We then drove to our hotel where we were going to stay over night, a very nice hotel with water-skiing facilities and a mini golf. As we arrived at the hotel, a band of mariachi was playing local music. We just chilled out until dinner time and then had a very nice dinner, not only the dinner was delicious, but we had a very pleasant talk that lasted until the dinner lounge closed. We then headed to bed for a very peaceful night sleep.