Right before our week long Thanksgiving vacation, the drama department put on a "radio performance" of It's a Wonderful Life - complete with sound effects. The 40's hairstyles and costumes were super cute and the students did a great job. Then we took a train to San Jose de Chiquitos, one of the several Jesuit missions between Santa Cruz and Brazil. Since the trains travel at night, we took a bus from there to Robore in order to see the reportedly beautiful scenery. Another train took us to the border town of Quijarro where we had our Thanksgiving dinner. We were also able to slip over into Brazil and take a short trip onto the Pantanal - the largest wetland in the world, shared by Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay. An all night "Ferrobus," sort of a fancy two-car train (very bouncy), brought us home. View our pictures at http://picasaweb.google.com/raemmans . We actually saw quite a few small caimen and one pretty big one, but they were camera shy.
