A Weekend of Birthdays in Sucre

This past weekend, Ryan and I attended two Bolivian birthday parties, both of which gave us the chance to get a taste of Bolivian culture. We discovered that turning seventy does not prevent one from dancing all night or from taking a flaming shot at midnight. In fact, one grandmother, who was likely in her eighties, danced much more than either of us and stayed up far longer. (The party, we were told, was still going at four am, and so was she!)