Good Morning, Guatemala!

Monday, Dec 7

We are entering the winter  here. Which means less rain and clouds and more sunny days. I go out in a shirt every day and may need a very light jacket for the evening. The missus is more sensitive to the "cold" she feels and so wears a couple of layers.

Today, for example, is gloriously sunny at 9 am. It gets dark around 6pm.

We were at an open air Christms show last night and it got a little bit chilly for the kids (who are not accustomed to any cold whatsoever!)

We travelled to Guatemala City last Dec 2 so her cousins could celebrate her birthday and stayed there a couple of nights. She and her family have been contacting each other and meeting and so there is enough socializing. In general people are warmer than in the USA and family ties stronger. It is not so much of a rat race. 
Got to go to make the coffee,


--Dear Family

just to make you envious; (Irish English)

and we getting up in the morning with the sun streamin' in the window; and showering in luke warm water and looking out over the valley at the mountains on the other side of La Antigua where the coffee plants are dark green under the gravilea tress...

And then goin' down into the kitchen to cut the lovely papaya -i hope you like them- which was very ripe and you can have with a squirt of lime -the Mexican way- or with cottage cheese. and some good bread butter and marmelade from Murcia -should have been Scotland!- with a great cup of the local coffee -its very sophisticated here -it goes by regions whatever taste you prefer...

Anyway, there you are...

Your Man

PS there is a fiesta this evening down the road in Ciudad Vieja (Guatemala's second capital after the natives chased them out of Tecpan) where they are celebrating the Feast of the Immaculate Conception -they'll be burning the devil there in a bonfire...Aura's cousin Beto is coming from the capital to drive us down...

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