A Tale of Two Robberies

1st Robbery:The whole time we have been in Argentina we have felt pretty safe, we never expected that the biggest danger would be from a three-foot animal. I thought the little South American Racoons (Coatis) were so cute until they ambushed me out of no-where and stole my whole lunch sack. I swear they had an attack plan. I was just getting my camera out to film how cute they were and out of nowhere a little black Coati (the leader of the pack) ran out of the bushes and clung upside-down to my lunch sack, (legs and arms wrapped around the whole bag). I tried to shake him off but he wouldn’t budge he sliced the bag open with is gnarly claws and all my food dropped to the floor and then that’s when the whole ambush ran out and snatched every last piece of my lunch food. I just stood there trying to get my food back from those little thieves while Jessica ran to save herlife. She kept yelling to me… Run!! Run!! And I kept yelling… Somebody help me!! Help me..I want my food back! In the end, they totally worked me for everything I had. I guess I was just lucky I didn’t get bit by any of the little ravages and get rabies. Jessica was the only lucky person that got to witness this whole scenario…we laughed about it for the next hour or so and wished that we could have gotten more of it on flim...i just have the audio of us screaming (couldn’t focus on filming while I was being robbed).

Second Robbery:Was even crazier than the 1st. Jessica, Gorgie (our new friend from England) and I had been planning to go the supposidly the "best market in Bolivia" for about a week. Thursday (the only day of the market) finally comes around and we are super excited to be able to buy textiles, jewlrey and hand-woven sweaters for really cheap. About five minutes after we arrive at the market I go to pay for some freshly squeezed orange juice and that is when i notice that my bag/purse has been sliced open with a knife and my wallet is gone. It was so crazy. When i think back i can remember being squished in a crowd with two men on either side of me and thinking "this is weird" so i pushed back and grabbed my bag and picked up my walking pace. I have no clue how they managed to grab nothing but my wallet. I had so many other things in my purse that could have been easily mistaken for my wallet and somehow they mangaged to grab the exact one. Lucky my camera wasn't taken as well, i was robbed about the equivelance of $100 USD's, my Drivers Licence, and my Debit Card. I guess it could have been worse... but geeze they are so skillful. It happed so quickly... within seconds! Watch out travelers of Bolivia... the natives here really know their techniques.