we are stupid tourists after all

We can now be classified as stupid tourists!
Today something very strange happened to us. We were on our way to an art museum
when a lady started talking to us in Spanish. She said to follow, so we did. Once we were away from the trees that we were under, she started wiping our backs. We realized that we had something on our backs. First we thought it was bird crap but there was too much and then we thought it was tree sap but there was none on the ground. The lady and a man helped us get cleaned up. I was lucky though and didn’t have much on me.

After taking pictures of the strange trees that crapped on us, we got in a taxi and headed home to change our clothes. We asked the taxi diver what it was and he said – in Spanish – that it was sap from a tree bud. When my dad took his wallet out to pay the taxi diver there was nothing in it. The people took about $500 cash from my dad’s wallet and his Visa card when they were pretending to get the stuff off of him.

Pretty smart trick! What they did was pretend they were tourists. They then squirted us with a liquid that looked like the sap or bird crap. Then while they cleaned us up they managed to take my dads wallet out of his back pocket – the pocket was buttoned up - take what they wanted from his wallet and then put it back after. All the time we were looking at the strange trees wondering where the stuff came from and thanking the people for helping us. They must have been laughing pretty hard. I feel stupid.