Fiesta!

As always it's been an interesting couple of weeks...

Willie had his first date:) He was the companion of Katrina at Karina's 15th birthday party. At first we thought it was a simple date but when we got there it turned out that he was there to take part in a ceremonial dance. Luckily it wasn't too complicated. They all lined up with their partners and stood in two lines across from each other, then Karina and here date went from person to person dancing with them. It's hard to describe, but it was very interesting. Anyway, the 15th year is an important event and it was great to be a part of it and check out some local culture.




















Mike has been working on his music and has put together a new version of his song "The Wind"
Check it out....



We've been seeing a lot of birds lately, we saw toucans twice last week. We've also seen some woodpeckers and various other birds. And as always there have been some other interested beasties around... Mojo went chasing after something the other night and when Mike went to get him he heard a loud and scary growl coming from the darkness. We think it was a cat of some kind, maybe a jaguar or jaguarundi.






















This week has been the end of school, prep for the holiday week. We took Kaileah to a secret santa party on Friday and spent most of the day at an all day graduation party. We finally got a chance to get down with the locals. In the past we've gone to their parties and everyone was standing around, nobody dancing. We discovered last night that if you just stay late enough people start loosening up and dancing. We were also tricked into participating in a dance contest. Carlos came running up to us looking very serious, telling us that we HAD to go dance because they needed one more couple to dance. We didn't really understand why it was so urgent but we went ahead and danced. Everyone else was sitting/standing and watching us dance, but that's usually what happens so we didn't think anything of it. Then when the music stopped we started to walk away and they stopped us and had us line up in front of everyone. Then they started announcing everyone's names and having the audience cheer for everyone. It finally occurred to us that we'd just competed in a contest! The funniest thing about it was that we won the contest. It was definitely a pity win, as we were the worst dancers on the floor. Funny stuff!

Willie and Josh have been really sick for the last several days. They've been feverish and feeling pretty nasty. So, they've missed out on all the fun. Willlie seems to be feeling better so we're hoping he'll be all better ASAP. It stinks that he's missed out on all the events going on.

As always, we're keeping track of the more farm related activities on our other blog http://verdenergiablog.blogspot.com/