Visit to Santa Cruz

Lydia and I made it to Santa Cruz Tuesday to check out Santa Cruz Christian Learning Center and meet the principal, Steve Swope. Unfortunately, we arrived during some of the worst flooding in Bolivia's history. The school was not exempt, and they had to cancel classes for the remainder of the week. The soccer field was a lake and the grounds a potential koi pond. In fact they caught a three-foot eel and two catfish on campus! Lydia did get to meet some students and was able to sit in on Spanish class. We were also able to attend chapel before they sent everyone home early.


We stayed at New Tribes Mission guest house, which was great fun. Wednesday afternoon we visited a couple of "malls" which were more like department stores. Everything is done differently here. To pay for our purchases in the clothing department, I was sent downstairs to the lawnmower department. Never would have guessed.


Thursday showed us Santa Cruz heat. But the clouds would come over, then a breeze or a sprinkle, and we decided we'd be able to handle it. It is mid-summer down here.


We got home Friday at around 4PM even though our flight was for 10AM. The flight is only 30 minutes, but we had to wait for Sucre weather to permit.


I put a few pictures on the web album. The link is http://picasaweb.google.com/raemmans . Poor Peter had to do schoolwork while we were gone.