A day in La Paz

Spent a full day wandering the busy streets of La Paz today. A mid-morning saltena (baked pastry filled with meat and spices, carne is the best) which I really like alot. The girls aren't as fond of them though and had a jello tart and chocolate pudding. Stopped into the Museum of Musical instruments which was full of guitars, charangas, drums and even a few mandolins. There were a couple of display instruments that the girls enjoyed playing with, no violins though. I did some charanga inquiring there and would purchase one later in the afternoon! I will be looking into lessons in Argentina.

We stumbled into the presidential plaza and sat for a while while Meghan and Helen fed the pigeons, tons of pigeons, some eating out of their hands. Also walked through witches alley (no pointed hats) where women were selling offerings of good luck, trinkets, herbs and llama fetuses! Very interesting to see but llama fetuses don't pack well so we moved on. The unusual continued after dinner when Debby and I were offered an apertif. Our choices.... a couple standards which looked good, but then our waiter pulled out a large jar wrapped in cloth. Bolivian Pisco he called it and when the cloth came off I felt we were staring at a boa constrictor that filled the jar. After we oogled at the snake and confirmed that this was a real drink, we went for it. I rationalized it by eqating it to tequila with a worm, plus we had passed on the llamas!