The Cala's came to town!!!

They arrived!


Birthday breakfast for Evelyn.

We put evelyn to work for her birthday.

And Bob too.

The coffee plantation was a hit...the cultural portion, not so much.

Birthday dinner pizza and the pats!

Complimentary brownie dessert...she didn't even kill liz for telling them it was her day.

Bob hanging out in ruins.

Evelyn hanging out in ruins.

We just happened to be there for Day of the Devil. A day on which effigies of el diablo are burned in the streets...

and there are fashion shows...?

We all worked on our pool skills.

On our way to Santiago Atitlan...

the way back almost killed us...well at least it got us pretty wet.

All in all it was a pretty relaxing trip. Thanks for memories and the razzing. We already miss you guys!

Sports Camp!

Since school is currently isn't in session, we had a few sports camps in our towns. We introduced the kids to the exciting world of relay races, kickball, ultimate and 8 foot dunkball that only I could dunk.




This kid kept blasting it out of the park.


The girls loved playing ultimate and were much better with their hands than the boys. This is largely in part to the fact that girls tend to play basketball here and boys play soccer.



Its pretty nice being the tallest person around...even if it creates a bit of an unfair advantage for me...We also made tie dye shirts with our friend at her summer camp which we helped out with.

Thanksgiving...at the Beach!!!

Thanksgiving was a little different this year. We spent the day traveling to the coast and spent the weekend at a turtle sanctuary swimming in the ocean and eating fresh fish and shrimp. We had lofty goals of cooking a big Thanksgiving dinner when we first got there, but decided instead on fresh fish for dinner.

We did get our potatoes though, with a side of shrimp.

This is what most of the days consisted of. It was quite exhausting.

This is one of the turtle nesting areas that you can see in the back of the above picture.


The second day we were there we did get around to cooking our Thanksgiving dinner. It was superb.



We had a beach bonfire after dinner and roasted marshmallows to the sounds of crashing waves.

We loved all the pigs around and this is an example of the typical housing in this area.

To get here we went through an estuary and mangrove forests.

This is the estuary we had to cross. It was an amazing weekend. We survived bug bites, cockroaches, a rat we had to herd out of our room, liz swam with dolphins and we managed to not get too sunburnt. Can't wait to see where we end up next year. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!