Last night we decided to take the kids we are staying with to the Multicine, one of two movie theaters in La Paz playing the latest movies. Gabriel, 11 years old, was absolutely ecstatic about going to the movies. I didn’t really know what to expect going to a Latin movie theater, but Stephanie and I have never been so entertained on a trip to the theater. When we entered the building everything seemed normal aside from the fact that we were the two tallest, whitest people in the crowd. As we passed all the little department stores the crowed thickened. I had no idea why there were some many people around. We found the line to buy the tickets, which, was abnormally long, and got tickets to Toy Story 3. After we bought the tickets, Gabriel came and found us and took us down a couple of flights of stairs to the popcorn line where the kids had just bought 5 sodas and 3 jumbo popcorn buckets. They were quite relieved to see us because they had run out of money and needed a few extra Bolivianos to complete the deal. This is where Steph lost it and started laughing hysterically. Apparently there is an unwritten rule here that if you are going to watch a movie you have to buy popcorn and drinks. I don’t know where all the people came from, but there was about 4 times the people buying popcorn as there were in the ticket line. After the popcorn and drinks we had to stand in line for them to check our tickets. In short the entire floor of the room was covered with people standing in one line or another, not even Disneyland on Christmas is so packed with people. Needless to say the Bolivians love to go the movies. We watched Buzz and Woody on the silver screen and had a ball.
Steph with the kids in front of the 11 screen Multicine!
We promise the kids had fun, Latins just have a natural instinct to put on their game faces for any photo.
Just waiting for the movie to start and eating our popcorn.
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