Although I wasn’t focused on picture taking when we were shopping for the fabric for our chairs, here are just a few shots from the San Francisco Plaza area in downtown La Paz and a few pictures from the area of the Coca Museum. We’ll visit this museum on a return trip! There is so much to see and do!

We’re finished! We did it! Our weekend project only took two days to recover 8 dining room chairs and 4 breakfast table chairs. Our school would not assist us with a recovering project, so . . . as we had already decided we could never sit on ANY of the dining room chairs (we’ve been here over a month), we needed to take on this project. On Friday I went with a group to the fabric district way uptown by taxi (50 Bolivianos–we paid way too much!). I found fabric for our dining room chairs and then we proceeded on down the hill to the Calle Sarganaga just off the Witches’ Market to purchase some rugs to brighten our apartment space. The chair coverings are beautiful now; however, the seat coverings surely were disgusting while taking off the old. How the school expected us to use these chairs was beyond our imagination–we didn’t. Now we’re happy and will be ready for company on Christmas Eve! 🙂

Last weekend we enjoyed a work trip with ACS high school students to El Alto to help with a home for Habitat for Humanity. We look forward to the trips again next year! Working at 13,615 feet was not as difficult as we thought it would be. Guess we have already manufactured that extra pint of red blood cells!

We’ve been in our “new” place almost three weeks now. Ernie and I were given the opportunity to move to a bigger, warmer, brighter, and closer to school apartment. We said, “Yes,” of course! We’re much happier here with space to roam around in and a kitchen that works SO much better than the old apartment. We continue to have a few maintenance items on the “to do” list, such as recover all the dining room chairs that are totally disgusting (stained); have the living room furniture cleaned (stained as well); and clean the two carpets that were here–not much maintenance has been kept up! We will have someone come this week to caulk the glass windows in the living room which have gaps, fix a few of the slats in the parquet floor that keep popping up; have the hot water leak in the bathroom repaired; and then all will be well! Next Saturday night we’re hosting a soup dinner and hope to have a reupholstering party to get the dining room chairs covered before we can actually sit on them!