Sucre never sleeps

Our meeting last night started at 9pm and I had to practically beg to be taken home at 12:30 this morning. George and I were driven back to the hotel, but no idea when the three young-uns came back. I crashed pretty quickly but my alarm went off at 7:15 am so it's not like I'm getting enough sleep even when I'm being a party pooper. :-)
Today we are visiting (drum roll please): A CHOCOLATE FACTORY, then a sombrero factory (did I mention the chocolate factory), then lunch, then we're going to a park that has dinosaur tracks. :-) Something else at the end of the day, but can't remember. Once again, a dinner at 9pm and they are hell bent on taking us out to karaoke. The club we're hanging out with today (there are three in the city and they are taking turns being in charge of us) is "mixto" -- meaning they actually let women be a part of it.

Rotary was all-male until a club in Seattle (I.D) decided to let women in. Rotary Int'l told them they couldn't be rotarians with ladies in the group, so the I.D. group SUED Rotary Intl'l Finally, Rotary had to relent. Most clubs in Bolivia, IF they allow women, have only done so for the past 3 years. There is still quite a few of men-only clubs, and as you can imagine, they serve water, soda pop, and whiskey before every meeting. I've been going for the water.

Before our meeting last night, Ashley, Mark and I took a little walking adventure down to the plaza. It's 3 blocks away, but it took us 8 to get there because we didn't know where we were going! We had a bottle of wine and 7 empanadas, and the total bill was 9 dollars. I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that Bolivia is a pretty economical place to visit.