Paraguay

We got an early start today and headed to Paraguay for some shopping. This Paraguayan city is something like Tijuana. It was filled with great deals on everything from socks and purses to digital cameras and iphones, with street venders approaching from every angle. It definitely couldn’t keep my languages straight here, and people would speak Portuguese, Spanish or English, and almost any currency was accepted. The prices were almost always posted in US dollars, which I thought was pretty interesting. I’ve gotten so use to Reais that it was strange to see things in dollars again. Not to mention that my income is in Reais, so I was actually converting the prices back, to know what they would be in Reais. Paraguay has a completely open border, both ways, so I didn’t even get a stamp in my passport to prove I was there.