Well we are coming into the home stretch here, and I think the team is ready for departure. The Groff's (sp?) really are good people, they just might be a little too old to have 5 young people hanging around.
In the past few days we have shopped till we dropped. Sheldon walks really fast downtown, and we can't quite get enough breath as it is so we have to tell him to slow down every once in a while.
Team Bolivar and The Strongest had a revenge game on Tuesday, (they tied last game if I didn't tell you) we didn't go because we were hanging out with a youth group from a church. We helped paint their youth room bright orange! And then we did a devotion for them. We sang worship songs in Spanish again, which was really cool. Except I was a little distracted because the church is right next to the stadium. We could hear perfectly the cheers, the shouts, the fireworks, the booing if there was any. Turns out Bolivar won, 2 to 1. Darn, I wasn't even cheering for them.
Wednesday was a tour of La Paz on a big tour bus. That was fun, I got some good pictures of me on a rock in a valley, Moon Valley as it were. This city is very colorful, not just the rocks and mountains its built in, but also the houses. Like you stepped into a cartoon land. The wires above our heads and tunnels we went through were really close to us (because we sat on the top with no roof). Cullen got a good video of it and it's really funny.
And yesterday we went to the Lake Titcaca! We didn't get to swim in it, but we found a really good place for lots of pictures. And we stopped at a restaurant, I can't remember the name, but it has the best trout. Ever. I inhaled it it was so good. Cullen had 2. He thinks he's stretched his stomache since we've been here, because most meals he's eating more than the rest of us. He just really likes his food I guess.
And that brings us to today. We are going to a place called Alasietas (sp.) I think it's a place where you buy minitaures. We talked (well, Sharon did because she speaks the language) to this cab driver and he said that the tradition is to buy miniatures and hope they come to you in real life. So people buy little cars or little houses and what not. If you buy a rooster you want a husband, if you buy a hen, a wife. John jokes about coming here to find a woman, so I we'll see if he buys a hen or not.
We have 3 more full days left in La Paz. Our plane leaves on Monday and we get back on Tuesday Jan 29 at 9:30am. So we hope to see you all there!

This means you, Lauren Renner! (Hopefully the staff can turn a blind eye for my beloved roommate... we practically are blood related you know)

Thanks for your prayers, they really have helped!
Ciao.