{"id":690,"date":"2010-12-10T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T02:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=690"},"modified":"2010-12-10T22:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T02:20:00","slug":"festivals-of-quito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=690","title":{"rendered":"Festivals of Quito"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend we had the opportunity to experience the Festivals of Quito.\u00a0 Basically,\u00a0 December 6th is the city of Quito&#8217;s Founding Day, so there are many celebrations that go along with the week that leads up to this day.\u00a0 We were able to spend some time with the Burbano&#8217;s and the Hoskin&#8217;s in celebrating these days by attending a parade and a fair.\u00a0 At the fair we were able to try a lot of typical Ecuadorian food which we had never tried before like Guinea Pig, which is a special Ecuadorian plate.\u00a0 See the pictures for evidence:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_691\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/12\/Big_Men.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-691\" class=\"size-full wp-image-691\" title=\"Big_Men\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/12\/Big_Men.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Instead of having giant ballon characters - they have these large home-made figures which are carried by people, which are actually very cool!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_692\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/12\/Big_Man.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-692\" class=\"size-full wp-image-692\" title=\"Big_Man\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/12\/Big_Man.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here&#39;s a close-up of one of these men<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_693\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/12\/Clown_Stilts_Parade.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-693\" class=\"size-full wp-image-693\" title=\"Clown_Stilts_Parade\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/12\/Clown_Stilts_Parade.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-693\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A clown on really high stilts<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_694\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/12\/Burbanos_Delps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-694\" class=\"size-full wp-image-694\" title=\"Burbanos_Delps\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/12\/Burbanos_Delps.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moms and Sons enjoying the parade<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_695\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/12\/Making_Sugar_Cane_Juice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-695\" class=\"size-full wp-image-695\" title=\"Making_Sugar_Cane_Juice\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/12\/Making_Sugar_Cane_Juice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-695\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is a sugar cane juicer for making, yep you guessed it, sugar cane juice<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_696\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/12\/Cuy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-696\" class=\"size-full wp-image-696\" title=\"Cuy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/12\/Cuy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-696\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Cuy&quot; or Guinea Pig, an Ecuadorian delicacy<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_697\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/12\/Joel_Cuy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-697\" class=\"size-full wp-image-697\" title=\"Joel_Cuy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/12\/Joel_Cuy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-697\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joel digging into the Cuy... &quot;yep, tastes like chicken!&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_698\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/12\/Local_Band.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-698\" class=\"size-full wp-image-698\" title=\"Local_Band\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/12\/Local_Band.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-698\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An indigenous band playing Ecuadorian folk music<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_699\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/12\/Navy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-699\" class=\"size-full wp-image-699 \" title=\"Navy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/12\/Navy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-699\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Ecuadorian National Navy Band playing really good music<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_700\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/12\/Simeon_Martita_Robin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-700\" class=\"size-full wp-image-700\" title=\"Simeon_Martita_Robin\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/12\/Simeon_Martita_Robin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Simeon dancing to the music with Martita, his babysitter, and her husband, Robin<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=690&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend we had the opportunity to experience the Festivals of Quito.\u00a0 Basically,\u00a0 December 6th is the city of Quito&#8217;s Founding Day, so there are many celebrations that go along with the week that leads up to this day.\u00a0 We were able to spend some time with the Burbano&#8217;s and the Hoskin&#8217;s in celebrating &hellip; 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