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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

A day in El Prado

Today we had to return to our lawyers office for more paper work.  After a few minutes there, we were taken to a notary, where we proceeded to spend about 3 hours waiting only to find that they switched some of Ricci and my information.

 By this time, everything was closed for, of course, lunch and siestas.  We made the best of it.........
The only American restaurant chain in Bolivia...and there is only one




Can't see it well but it says the city of eternal spring


The Prado is a big park with businesses on both sides





Huge palm trees everywhere



The good news is we made progress on our papers.  The afternoon wasn't without a hiccup.  We had to go to the Interpol (Bolivia international police).  Everything was going smooth until they ran out of copies of the paper work we needed with only me to go.  So we had to wait for someone to bring more copies.

We have to wait about 15-20 days for our police background check--Casey is very nervous--and then we can finish the process.  We will have to renew our temporary visas for another 30 days, but we kinda expected that anyway.

We had afternoon coffee, expressos, and crepes in a Paris Cafe Bar.  Not too bad, but they allowed smoking inside, so we didn't stay long.

Sorry we haven't had too many field service experiences yet.  We'll get there, just the visa getting in the way.  Most of the leg work should be behind us for now.

Ciao Ciao (typicallly said by Bolivians when leaving someone--we like it!)

4 comments:

  1. The parks are beautiful! Nice way to unwind after dealing with your visas! Love and miss you all :)

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  2. Who knew there'd be Interpol background checks? Casey, I can certainly understand why you'd be nervous, being the international woman of mystery that you are. I sure hope they don't find out about that time you took the shampoo from the Holiday Inn in Chattanooga.

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  3. Of course they may go light on you since you were only nine at the time.

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  4. Though I must say you do look pretty "shady" sitting on that bench in the Prado.

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