The sun has finally made an appearance. However, we took our time to introduce ourselves to it as we slept in past 9am and finally got out of the room around 10:30 or so. Just as we were about to leave our room, Mom stopped by to tell us that the breakfast buffet was about to close. At the same time, the phone rang in our room, and when Vee answered, it was one of the people from the restaurant telling us that they were about to close the breakfast buffet, and they wanted to see if we would want them to prepare some food for us from the buffet and bring it to our room. Where else would this happen? What a nice touch. Anyway, we were still full from dinner last night and were not interested in a full breakfast. Instead, we went down for a cappuccino with plans to have lunch a while later. Not long after we got our drinks, Andrew and Sonya appeared and we invited them to our table and ended up having a really nice time together, with conversation, coffees and lunch. Around 1:30pm or so we decided to go our separate ways and met up with the family at the pool. I put on the headphones, pulled down my hat, sprawled out on a lounge chair and took in the sun. Chris joined me, and the girls sat at a table by us, had some fresh lemonade and talked. The sun was warm, but never got too hot. The sky was a beautiful clear blue, and the wind died down to just a slight breeze. The pool water was still pretty cold from the rain we’ve been having, but Chris braved it and went for a swim. Mom pointed out a man who was walking by, and who must have just been checking into the hotel, as Jaimie Doria-Medina. He is one of the three main candidates for president of Bolivia, and is the one who Vee’s father is supporting and running with. Vee’s father is running for office as Deputy of the State of Cochabamba, and the elections are in December. Vee was able to pull the camera out in time to snap a pic as Sr. Doria-Medina walked by. Once the sun began to dip behind the hotel, we decided to head back to the rooms where Vee and I changed and headed to the gym for a workout. We had it all to ourselves for a time, but then another bunch of people came in. We were about finished so it was no problem really. After our workouts, we went back to the room and spent some time getting cleaned up, reading, etc., and then met up with the family for dinner. Although the stop was called off late in the afternoon, and many of the restaurants and bars would be open tonight, we decided to take it easy and have dinner here in the hotel. Dinner was excellent and we had a great time exchanging stories. I had a delicious trio of fish including fresh trucha (trout) from Lake Titicaca, surubi, which I think is similar to a catfish, and pejerrey. It was all good, especially the pink-colored trucha filet which apparently grows to be a huge fish in Lake Titicaca with steaks being 3 fingers thick. Our waiter was the same one from the other night that we ate here, and he remembered what each of us ordered for dessert and helped us decide what we should each have this time. Vee and I shared a tasty warm brownie with vanilla ice cream. After dinner, we turned in, and spent the rest of the night relaxing in our rooms. We got sucked into a movie called The Astronaut’s Wife, with Johnny Depp and Charlize Theron; it was entertaining. I guess it was after 1 or so in the morning before we finally went to sleep. Not an exciting day, but a beautifully relaxing one.
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