Sucre, Bolivia

Sucre Main Square

Sucre

Mormon Church

View of Hostel

View from top of Hostel

Top of Hostel

Hostel

Yummy lunch

Sucre

Sucre

Sucre

Airport

Yum!

Cari, Melissa, Geutilo, Kelly, and I took off on a trip to Sucre because we had a 3 day weekend. Yeah for a day off from school. We really needed it cause on the Friday before we left it was Halloween, and they do it up big here! The kids were crazy. We got off at 11:30 on Friday, but had to be back to the school for the evening activities. They had a ton of activities at the school including food booths, huge rubber slide, pools for boats to float in, dunking booth, train to take kids on rides, ferris wheel, talent show, costume parade. There were prizes for the best costumes and some people spent a ton of money on their costume. There were a couple of standout ones. They used this big cedar chest and had two kids dressed as ballerinas and they were supposed to be a music box. Another was a shower curtain made from PVC pipe. Another one was this huge cave that someone made with a couple of kids dressed up in there. I can only imagine how much money was spent on these!
We left for Sucre on Saturday morning early. We headed to the hotel when we got there and loved the hostel we stayed in. It was beautiful and quaint and included a yummy buffet breakfast. There were 3 floors and each room was so cute and decorated with neat old lights and decorations. Beautiful flowers and the view was awesome.
This city is one of my favorites so far. Mountains and hills and cooler weather, in fact I even wore a light jacket several times. I enjoyed walking up the hill to overlook the city!
We spent Saturday exploring the city, which is full of many church’s, including mine. I was so happy to find that it was only a few blocks from the hotel. We walked and walked in the cool weather. Bought a few trinkets like blankets and jewelry. Ate a yummy lunch which cost about 5$.
Saturday night we went to a cultural show next to the LDS church. For about 20$ we had dinner and a couple hours of dancing with gorgeous costumes. It reminded me of cultural events in Utah. I miss those activities.

I was able to attend on Sunday and I played the piano for them. Seems that not many people play the piano in Bolivia. Course it was all in Spanish, so I didn’t understand much, but the people were friendly.

Sunday after church, I met up with the group and we had this taxi driver take us to the “castle”. It was closed and we think he knew that, but just wanted our money. He said he would take us to the cemetery since it was “The Day of the Dead”. It was really interesting. They stack the coffins on top of each other and there are some really tall “buildings”. There were also “houses” that the wealthier people would have where they could also put many deceased people in. Lots of people were out. It is like our Memorial Day. The taxi driver charged us extra, which made us pretty mad. Later we heard from another taxi driver that he does this all the time. He told us he had been a taxi driver for over 30 years. I guess you have to do what you have to do to survive.

We went to a movie theater later that night, after another yummy and cheap dinner. It’s been nice to find movies here in English.

Monday morning we walked again in the morning and did more exploring. We headed for the airport, with a different taxi driver, and made it home by 3. We went to the Factory for a lunch of hamburgers and fries. And then it was home to catch up on laundry and get ready for school on Tuesday.
Laundy –
I don’t have a washing machine, and I’ve cut down the maid to one day a week, so I try and do hand washing daily so it doesn’t pile up. I do have the maid wash the sheets, kitchen towels, and rugs.
I have a small tub that I keep in the shower. I usually soak the clothes overnight and then in the morning scrub and wash them and hang them out to dry. I noticed with the humidity that the laundry had started to smell, so I bought some bleach to help with that. I surely miss my washing machine, and clothes from the dryer!