Today was windy, very windy, in Vilcabamba, Carol said it usually is like this in August but that it started early this year…whee!  It's not that it was cold, just windy.  Tonight will probably be pretty cool, more blankets for the beds and we will be fine.

We went into town today to see the market and the artisian show.  It was really kind of neat to see since it brought back memories of Kenya and the markets there.  The artisian show didn't have a great number of vendors so the things that we were hoping to find were not available.  Not that we really need anything, but hey, might find a treasure.

            

Anyone want some fresh fruit or freshly butchered pork??

    

Inside the building there were more shops.

         

We went into a hardware store and looked at the appliances they had for sale, they had really neat washing from Korea and really pretty nice gas ranges along with the regular array of stuff in a hardware store.  The dress shop is rather small and very crowded.

   

Out on the street there was they guy on a microphone telling people how wonderful his product was for cooking, sounded a lot like the guys at the State Fair.  There was also this shop with the coconut carvings that I thought were rather cute…no, I didn't buy any!

     

We had lunch at the cafe on the corner, in fact, everytime we ate in town we ate here, good food and nice people.  While we were there this St. Bernard took his people for a walk, now, I know that the Andes are high but I didn't realize that they would need a St. Bernard there!!  No snow (in the Southern Andes, there is in the Northern).