September 4 was Pedestrian Day, a holiday that I have
experienced once before here in Cochabamba but was actually the first time it
was celebrated nationwide. Basically,
cars are not allowed to drive for the day.
Since it happens on a Sunday, that killed our ability to take the boys
to church and left us with no real plans for the day. So we made some!
On Saturday morning Brian and I had to run around and do
some shopping with Jorge, but we came home with 65 chicken legs as well as lots
of potatoes and a few bell peppers. We
added all that to the onions and carrots that were already at home and sent Brian
to cut about a million lengths of wire while I played with fire until there was
a nice hot bed of coals for the boys to roast their kabobs over. Delicious!!
I’ve jumped way ahead though, because that was actually Sunday dinner.
Sunday morning the boys were in full repair mode. Lately the cool thing to do is put a scrap
piece of wood on top of an old roller skate and then get someone to push you
along the sidewalk.
So basically we promised to take the boys and their contraptions out to the paved
road that has a bit of a hill to it.
They promptly pulled together all sorts of things with wheels on them
and spent a couple of hours trying to make them as stable as possible.
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| There is only 1 wheel on this bike, but they can fix anything! |
Then we took everyone to the street! We set some orange cones out (because the
police were enjoying being able to drive way too fast on the empty streets) and
let the kids loose.
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| Even the tias got in on the fun |
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