No Vacancies!

When we arrived back to Copacabana after a night on the Isla del Sol, we went to find a hostal. What we thought would take...mmm... 5 minutes, ended up taking 3 hours. Apparently all of La Paz had arrived to Copacabana while we were gone and everything was full. We started getting a little nervous around the 39th, "NO, there are NO rooms!" We should have taken the room with the trash bag covering the gaping hole in the door, we thought. But by then, it was too late. Someone else had scooped it up. One woman told us that she could rent us a mattresses... for 5 bolivianos (that's approximately 71.4 cents...) Well that was an option....better than sleeping in the plaza.

Eventually we just started asking around if anyone had an extra room in their house that they could rent us for the night. Finally, a Yes! Just around the corner, the cholita told us. Just around the corner, ended up being about 10 blocks away. The room turned out to be... basic. Two hard, square mattresses put together, no sheets... 7 blankets. Where's the bathroom? Ahhh, there isn't one, but I can give you my new pot. ooooooook.

We had some visitors in the night. A few cats dashing from one room to another, a dog chorus outside the window, a possible rat stepping on a bag in the corner. Somehow we slept. The morning couldn't have come soon enough. We gave the cholita 30 bolivianos, thanked her for saving us from sleeping in the park and went on our way.