Traveling back...

After crying my whole flight from Cochabamba to La Paz, I am here in La Paz so that means I am in transit back to the states! It is just so bizarre to think that I will be back in San Antonio roughly at this time tomorrow night...with God´s protection and grace of course! Let me just say that La Paz is beautiful and I wish I would of had more time here. My flight got delayed so I only had like an hour in daylight and then took a walk around town looking at all the buildings and various squares. But, I am also enjoying just resting in my hotel room watching tv (because I have not done that in awhile)...and yes I am about to take a HOT bath and then get my butt in bed since I have to be up at 3:30 am, that´s right folks...I said A.M.!! Tomorrow is going to be a looooong day! I think once I leave Bolivia I am going to be a little bit more excited about returning home! I am in a really sad place right now, today and yesterday was not easy saying bye to all of my lovely friends and family in Bolivia!

Instead of all of the sad things, let me share a little bit about all the fun I had my last week! Well, as I shared earlier we went to Chapare to go White Water Rafting and it was a blast! I just loved it! The rapids were probably only a level 3, but we had a quite a few sections of rapids so it made it a lot of fun! After that we went and ate lunch and then traveled to another town in the Chapare to visit the cocaine museum...yeah that´s right who knew there was a cocaine museum, well I can say I have been to the cocaine museum in the cocaine capital of the world! I thought it was so fascinating and I am glad that our guide was so eager to take us there! Then at about 5:50 the next morning Adrian came to my door and woke me up to tell me that the poor thing had been throwing up all night...to be exact he threw up and had diarrhea (hope you don´t mind I share this Adrian) about 10 stinking times! So, I ended up taking him to the clinic to be checked out. They said they were going to put him on a drip for about 45 minutes which turned into over 2 hours. So, during that 2 hours I started feeling bad and ended up throwing up a few times at the clinic too! Man, I was fighting it and praying against it, but I lost! Finally he got his results back and we discovered that he had a stomach infection. I mentioned to the doctor that I thought I had something too, but they pretty much ignored me so we just left. When I got home I ended up throwing up a few more times and trying to sleep it off the whole day. I had things planned with friends and defintely errands to run, but unfortunately didn´t get to do most of it! Later that day we had a little surprise belated birthday partay for our teacher Tina, and I got my butt out of bed to go, still not feeling great! But, my friends from the church were having a going away get together for me that night so I had to get myself together. After I drank some sprite and ate some crackers, I started feeling a whole lot better! The night with my friends was awesome and so full of love! Praise God because I woke up Friday morning feeling wonderful...although I woke up starving and felt like I had a hole in my stomach! I was able to get myself together and go to lunch with Nate and Kate, go to La Cancha, visit and say chao to the kids at Villa Israel, visit with some friends, pack, and go to a delicious dinner with the Johnson´s and Spies´(probably the latest dinner I have ever eater...we got done at 11:30). Oh, I finally was able to pick my passport up yesterday after she told me to come by Thursday and it wasn´t ready!

Welp, I have a long day of traveling ahead of me so I think I am going to go send an email out to everyone, go take a bath, and then get in bed! Thanks for your many prayers and for all of you that have kept up with reading my blogs...you guys rock! I hope to update you about my return to the states some time this week! Wow, this is all so stinking surreal to me after Bolivia has been home to me for the last how many months!