Sally and I have been cooped up in the house for the last 2 days. I've been sick, well on Monday was a holiday so we were all home for a new work-free holiday for the Aymara people. It is celebrated as the Aymara new year. Click here to find out more of their traditions and celebrations on the new year http://www.boliviabella.com/aymara-new-year.html. I didn't have school and Doug (or anyone else in Bolivia for that matter) didn't have to work! Doug and I were going to have Nora come at 11 so we could walk up the street just a block from our apartment highrise and see a pelicula (film/movie). But at 1030 we got a call from Nora saying that she couldn't get a taxi or a bus so she couldn't babysit! All of the taxi cab drivers, kiosk workers, market sellers etc... were at home or at the Aymara celebration in El Altiplano (a straight stretch of land a small distance from LaPaz). So we decided to stay in as a family. About 1 we went downstairs to our garden in the rear of our building. Sally loves to jump on th
e trampoline. I still have yet to take pics or video of this. So we played in the sun for a while and went to the store (This was still open. Phew!) We have to by 2 (2 liter) bottles of water a day, for drinking and cooking. So we had to make it to the store. We thought about taking Sally with us and just seeing Toy Story 3 but I for one didn't want to sit through it with a 1 year old during nap time AND for the fact that it was in spanish with no subtitles. At the store we walked through the isles wondering what to have fun for dinner since it was a holiday and all! We decided on homemade Alfredo with broccoli and carrots. I bought a new cheese which semi resembled parmesean and bought cream that was thicker than heavy whipping cream in the states but that was all they had so I got 2 of them. When I opened the one container at home it was fine, the other was already opened and 
chunky!! Blah! So I used half whole milk and the other cream...I used fresh nutmeg for the first time and the new cheese!!!! Mmmm. Well the dinner turned out beautifully and Doug really loved it. Sally not so much. And me well...at 3 in the morning my stomache felt like it was in a vice! Oh my word the pain!! I finally 'got sick' if ya know what I mean, around 6am after being restless and in SOOOO much pain (and you have to know, I gave birth with NO meds and total concentration and this was SO much worse!). I sat there seriously thinking about running downstairs and hailing a taxi and saying "hospital por favor!!" Doug stayed home until 930 but had to go to work so he put Sally back in bed and I tried to sleep. Nora couldn't watch sally that day either so I just had mom pray that sally would be good! Oh and she was. After sitting in the highchair for a LONG time watching an entire dvd of 
Dora and eating a lot of junk, she just played quietly like an angel! Which never happens. :) I just layed on the couch and watched her. Her new play is dress up in everybodies shoes or "SHOOSH" as she calls them. So I got one pic on tuesday night of her in my shoes. Then she was gettin ready for bed and didn't want to take off her new shoes so here are some pics of her being silly.
I am now recovered (still some rib pain and fatigue) and again today don't have school. Maybe We'll get that movie in tonight. :) Next Tuesday Doug's parents are coming and we are going to travel and hour or more North to Lake titicaca! SO beautiful. I will definately post!!
e trampoline. I still have yet to take pics or video of this. So we played in the sun for a while and went to the store (This was still open. Phew!) We have to by 2 (2 liter) bottles of water a day, for drinking and cooking. So we had to make it to the store. We thought about taking Sally with us and just seeing Toy Story 3 but I for one didn't want to sit through it with a 1 year old during nap time AND for the fact that it was in spanish with no subtitles. At the store we walked through the isles wondering what to have fun for dinner since it was a holiday and all! We decided on homemade Alfredo with broccoli and carrots. I bought a new cheese which semi resembled parmesean and bought cream that was thicker than heavy whipping cream in the states but that was all they had so I got 2 of them. When I opened the one container at home it was fine, the other was already opened and 
chunky!! Blah! So I used half whole milk and the other cream...I used fresh nutmeg for the first time and the new cheese!!!! Mmmm. Well the dinner turned out beautifully and Doug really loved it. Sally not so much. And me well...at 3 in the morning my stomache felt like it was in a vice! Oh my word the pain!! I finally 'got sick' if ya know what I mean, around 6am after being restless and in SOOOO much pain (and you have to know, I gave birth with NO meds and total concentration and this was SO much worse!). I sat there seriously thinking about running downstairs and hailing a taxi and saying "hospital por favor!!" Doug stayed home until 930 but had to go to work so he put Sally back in bed and I tried to sleep. Nora couldn't watch sally that day either so I just had mom pray that sally would be good! Oh and she was. After sitting in the highchair for a LONG time watching an entire dvd of 
Dora and eating a lot of junk, she just played quietly like an angel! Which never happens. :) I just layed on the couch and watched her. Her new play is dress up in everybodies shoes or "SHOOSH" as she calls them. So I got one pic on tuesday night of her in my shoes. Then she was gettin ready for bed and didn't want to take off her new shoes so here are some pics of her being silly.I am now recovered (still some rib pain and fatigue) and again today don't have school. Maybe We'll get that movie in tonight. :) Next Tuesday Doug's parents are coming and we are going to travel and hour or more North to Lake titicaca! SO beautiful. I will definately post!!
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