Coming up

We're leaving this morning for Nebaj, a community up in the Guatemalan highlands. It should take us 6-8 hours to get there in our 16-passenger van.

We're traveling with our bosses from Costa Rica, two of our MCC workers, and two youth from Nebaj. This means I am mentally preparing for Spanish for the next three days. This is all after two days of workshops with about 40 people from our partner organizations. Also all in Spanish.

A couple of our partners talking about their work near Santiago Atitlan

This has been a few of the busiest weeks we've had since we arrived in Guatemala. We've been working weekends and late nights and running ragged. We can't wait to slow down.

When we return from this trip we will have an actual Sunday at home together, and then my mom and her husband are arriving on Monday for a week's visit. We are so looking forward to some time with family and we are actually going to take a couple days off from work! Ellie is very excited to have two of her grandparents here to celebrate her third birthday.

Backpack invitations for Ellie's birthday party at school.
(The backpack from Dora the Explorer)

Hasta Luego!!