Saturday Update

Hi everybody.

We all had a good weekend. Well that is to say that the girls are still not sleeping so well. For example: Abigail woke last night around 11pm or so complaining that there were "too many ants to compromise with" and asking for help to "get her out of the ant trap" - try to figure that one out.

Saturday morning we had a private tour of the Finca Filadelphia coffee farm/plantation. Our tour guide was Pablo - owner of Kafes Guatemala, the American complany which exports Guatemalan coffee to the states and has pledged to donate 20% of all purchases to L.A.C.E.S. Wowzers! I had no idea how much work goes into prepping coffee for exportation. The Finca Filadelphia is 750 acres and covers some eight mountains at a variety of elevations between 2,500 and 8,000 feet above sea level. It was absolutely amazing. Joy has some pictures of the plantation on the other computer so we´ll update this post later.

After our tour we returned home to rest for a while and then headed back out to meet with someone Ken met at CSA (Christian Spanish Academy). Ron Harrington is a fellow Canadian (retired Air Force and RCMP) who, with his wife, now live in a retirement community in a Mexican town some 40km south of Guadalajara. They are Lutherin missionaries. Ron has spent the last five weeks learning spanish at CSA and his wife, Mary, will be joining him the middle of March to study with him. Ron was interested in what we were doing and why we were here.

Thanks to a random power outage our game of Settlers from Catan was played with lantern light (for some part).

Well, that about wraps up Saturday...

Miss everyone back home.

-knme