Museo Nacional de Banco Central del Ecuador and Artesean Market.

Angie took us to the Museo Nacional de Banco Central del Ecuador to see some ancient artifacts. She said that even if we didn't want to see the artifacts, we had to see the gold room. The artifacts we pretty cool. But, just as Angie said, the gold room was worth it. It contained gold artifacts of all sorts: earrings, necklaces, figures and more. After that, we went to the Artesean market. There were hats, shirts, pictures, toys, tools, earings and more. I got a chess set that's made out of tagua and Americans know it as vegetable ivory. It looks realy cool. - MH.

The museum had all sorts of cool things. the first levels were precolumbian and the 2nd story was all colonial which was after the annoying Spanish showed up. Personaly the precolumbian artifacts were way cooler. After out time at the museum we headed back out to the street and walked over to the artisan's market. They had just about anything you could imagine from bracelets, to ponchos, to wallets, to stuffed animals and intricate carvings. And also they had the Ecuadorian iced cream which is just fruit juice sugar and then stirred in a metal bowl in iced water. For the record it's super good. my mom got gunabana, Myles got blackberry and I got Taxo. All in all it was a pretty good day

Zoe,

Out!