Greetings everyone! We had a fantastic day getting totally immersed in the rich and very colorful Guatemalan indigenous Mayan people culture. This morning, we headed to Sumpango, a nearby city that is world reknown for its kite flying festival. The kites were AMAZING! They were 20-50' in diameter. It took months for people to make them as the very colorful pictures were made from cut tissue paper. Please view the photo album as words cannot do justice. In the afternoon, we returned to watch them attempt to fly them. It was similar to the running of the bulls as we often had to run from the kites! We also walked through the cemetary which was filled with families decorating and celebrating nearby their family's gravesites. Very interesting!
We were also treated to a tour of a macademia nut factory - the gentleman who owns it is originally from San Francisco and now dedicates much of the money to helping the poor. Several of us bought chocolate covered macademia nuts however, you are in danger of not receiving them as they were wonderful!
Tomorrow the plan is to travel to the malnutrition center to spend the day with the children. We will then have a relaxing weekend with 1/2 of the group going to Tikal and the other 1/2 going to Chichicastenengo and Panajachel. The real work will begin next week when we build houses.
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