bird´s eye

here´s a bird´s eyeview of part of our life in San Cristobal....half our walk to the mission from our house. the week flew by. it was last friday already that we spent the afternoon/evening helping decorate for our staff member, Eva´s wedding and then attended it last saturday. it was lovely to be a part of the event and celebrate with her. it was also curious to be apart of a guatemalan wedding, which has many similarities to the one´s we know in northamerica. one difference is the processional walk in the morning from the bride´s parents home to the church, signifying the bride leaving her home. And then the reception is traditionally at the groom´s parents home where they both will live. we ended up in one room near the kitchen away from the other guests...i am not sure how that happened...but nonetheless we were served the traditional wedding dish, cakik, which is a soup or in our eyes is really a bowl of thick gravy, a bit spicy and with a hint of cinnamon. so the bowl of cakik, plate of hunks of turkey, hot tamalitos wrapped in banana leaves and a bottle of Pepsi. it was amazing the amount of food that they had preepared! they had probably slaughtered and cooked up 30 turkeys...that´s crazy, hey? our host family said that for their wedding - 80 turkeys...that is something crazier.