Fun in the sun :)

So while all of our friends and family in the states are enjoying snow and bundling up, we're enjoying some fun in the sun :) These past few weeks have been the Carnaval (South American Mardi Gras... except even more pagan) season for Bolivia. The streets are filled with water guns, water balloons, buckets of water being thrown at people passing by (are you seeing a theme here? :) and lots of partying. Today we went to the annual parade called Corso de Corsos. Each year in Cochabamba groups (from civic groups to military groups) dress up and march in the parade. The night before the Corso people set up bleachers and seats and Cochabambinos come and buy their seats for the next morning.

This year our sweet secretary Gabi invited us to come and watch the parade from the balconey of her family's apartment on the parade route! It worked out perfect since that way we could come and go as we wanted to and we were up and away from all the water gun shooting, water balloon throwing, and foam spraying. So instead of looking like these poor people, we looked like this :)
This is Gabisito, Gabriela's son who is such a great friend to our boys! While at the parage we saw groups dressed up like almost anything you can think of... The Simpsons...

Avatar...
The Trojans...

Mario Brothers...

(These guys had the right idea... carry a big barrel of water in the back of your float and arm yourself with some big buckets... game on!)

Chinese Dragons...And more traditional Bolivian culture...

Bolivian peach season is in full swing :)

Dressed up as traditional Bolivian bread.
It's been such an experience for our boys to grow up in two cultures so different and distinct. Mornings like today will be memories made that they will carry with them back to the states :)