Out on the town

Today Lisa left for Guatemala. Kati leaves for Oruro on Tuesday. Me and Kate needed to search for a new cell phone battery before she leaves and we need some internet cables. The ones we have are shotty. We went to the Plaza San Francisco again. Only this time we walked. Up hill! Blah! We walked throug a cool part of town with almost hidden doorways to restaurants and stores. Then the closer you get to the Plaza the more street vendors there are. It's Saturday so not everything is open but it was still crowded. The one thing I can't get over is how bundled up the indigenous women keep their tiny little babies. The babies are in 2 or more layers of clothes then wrapped in a huge wool blanket and wrapped in a bright stripped sling and placed on the front or back of the women. This seems rediculous. And a little over kill when I'm walking around sweating in a short sleeve shirt. Not to mention the women are over weight (which is seen as a sign of wealth or health) so when we're huffing and puffing from the altitude going uphill these women are carrying so much weight and not even grimmacing. Wow. Their skin is dark aswell and they wear layers of aprons and shawls. No complaining either. I could learn a lesson from them. :/ I found 2 sweaters for Sally and 1 pancho!! And Some plush soccer balls. SO CUTE. We saw 2 ghetto Merry go rounds! (Picture) Crazy. I don't think I'll but sally on one. We walked and walked through markets of stuff after stuff. Trinkets and whatnots. Clothes. shoes. Unbelievable how these people squish into these tiny cubes for shops and cram it with stuff. We kept walking until we were tired, then we had to walk home. No internet cables but I got awesome stuff for sally. Oh and the funny thing is we found clothes that were "made in the U.S.A." I thought that was funny cuz not even in U.S.A. are clothes made in the U.S.A. LOL.

We made our way (accidentally) to the government buildings and to the Presidents Palace. Phew! There were 8 guards at the door. Accross from the palace was another Plaza. There were A thousand Pigeons I'd guess. And the venders sold corn to feed them. If you walked to quickly ALL of them went flying in a circle formation and land again. My mother would go into cardiac arrest i just know it! She Hates low flying birds. We saw 2 wedding parties walking through that and another plaza. That must be the thing to do after people throw rice at you. They were covered. hehe. We found our way back. Poor Doug had sally all day. Sally was somber but that was good so daddy could get work done. What a tiring but fun day. Going out now to a restaurant while Kate, lovely Kate, babysits. :)