Last night was so cold that no matter how many blankets I swiped from my husband I still couldn't get warm!  It probably wasn't all that cold, but sure felt like it!  Yesterday was a rainy evening which probably made it seem much worse than it actually was.  Regardless, we went into the village today with the intention of buying a jacket of some sort, well, that didn't happen.  The shops had summer stuff but I didn't see any sweatshirts or jackets.  Good thing I have some long sleeved tops along and some sweaters, not going to be that chilled again before bed, made it miserable for me and for my husband!

The villiage of Vilcabamba is really quite neat.  It's clean, the people are friendly, the shops are small (Mexican type but cleaner) with wide main streets and a very pretty square where the market will be held on Sunday.

The ride from the hotel to the village was a $1.00 each way, the lunch we had in town totaled $8.  Cigarettes are $1.25 a pack and gasoline is $1 a gallon.  I looked at some real estate listings on the wall of the office across the street from where we ate lunch, houses ranged from $55,000 for one on a dirt road by some village to 3.2 Million in Quito.  I didn't go in to see what else they had, just was snoopy on what was outside.

The artist we are working with on the ivory jewelry (www.taguanutearrings.com) lives over the real estate office.  He came by while we were eating lunch.  He's a very nice guy, young, 2 kids.  I have him as Ecuadorian in the website which I have to change to Chilian since he corrected me at lunch.  When I pulled up the site for him to look at before we left for the village, his eyes got so big!  He was reading furiously when we left.  Haven't loaded all the pictures yet, maybe tonight, if I feel like it.  But, the site is built and I'm quite pleased with it.

I need to do some linking this afternoon, gotta get my ranking up so that I can qualify for more payperpost opportunities.  Right now I only have $43.35 coming LOL.

Time to go sit on the deck and enjoy the view, it's nice out right now although it was sprinkling when we came back from the village.  We picked up our laundry at the front desk and then came up to the room.  Nice to have someone wait on you hand and foot!