WE MADE IT!

Hey all we made it safely to Guatemala.
Sorry I dont know how to get my pics on here. we are enjoying ourselves so far. We have just been hanging out here in Pachalum. We made the boys a basketball hoop out of a big bucket and hung it on the fence outside. Alex has put it to good use. Except he has gone through 2 basketballs. The top of the fence that it is hung on has these pointy arrowhead things on it and someone has really good aim because both balls happened to hit just right on the points and popped them, so now he can only play with the soccer ball. After the soccerball gets popped he will have to play with the cheap-o plastic balls they sell here, which will not bounce. We have succesfully made pancakes from scratch and they are our breakfast staple. (Me and courtney decided this morning that if we dont make food ourselves we would starve to death. It is more like camping ina cabin than a vacation. A vacation is when you dont have to cook and clean. We have been eating out for lunch each day so that is nice. Now if we could just hire a live-in cook. ) :) We made choclate chip cookies last night and they were a hit. No rats in the oven this time. But we did have to unload about a whole cupboards worth of dishes and such putof there. And we tried to make french toast on a cookie sheet in the oven today and unknown to me Abuelita had put the PLASTIC strainer full of unripe mangoes back in the oven and the poor strainer melted to stringy pieces. That is one thing they lack here is storage space. In our room we made a shelf out of cinder blocks and wood. the wood was yucky so we wrapped it in garbage bags. Hey but it works and we got most of the bags unpacked. Last time we lived out of bags the whole time and it is nice to feel more organized. Anyway after walking to this internet place we just looked outside and it is raining alot now, so me and courtney need to find a tooc tooc(little motorcycle car thing) to take us back to the house since we are about 5 blocks away and we dont want to get soaked. We will blog again next time we get to the computer. We miss everyone but are having a good time.