Thanks for the comments on the last post. Maybe some more on that later. This past week has been one big party here in this part of Bolivia. One thing you need to know is that it doesn’t take much for Bolivians to want to have a party. We are constantly learning about something new that we are celebrating here. They celebrate with parades, concerts, and more parades. A friend of mine has a daughter in high school and she was required to go march in a parade on Sunday in her school uniform.
The reason for the celebration: On Monday when most of you were observing Memorial Day, Bolivia was celebrating 200 years of freedom from Spain. It all started here in Sucre, so the celebration has been talked about for years now and started over a month ago. This weekend I drove downtown to see a friend, which was crazy. Nearly all of the roads downtown were blocked, fireworks were going off, people were everywhere. It was stressful and exciting all at the same time.
Now today is Mother’s Day here in Bolivia (it is always May 27th). Just when they got all of the trash cleaned from Monday, they are having parades and parties for the moms. I already got some special treatment for my first Mother’s Day a couple of weeks ago but I’m thinking about trying to milk it a little more today. 
On a completely different note, I got my camera cord working, so here are some pictures of our crate.
The big crate our boxes were in
There are boxes all over our house
It was fun opening everything. We had forgotten what all was in there.
