Greetings from Coban, Dec. 21, 2008

Hi, everybody.

I'm here in Cobán, and, with the assistance of Aliria who knows a whole lot more about computer tech than I do, I'm going to try to load some photos we took the other night of the new house we've built on the land I share with the señoras of the Women's Association of San Pablo Xucaneb'.

The villagers conducted the bendición de la casa that the Maya do when they build a house, so we have some photos of the house and of the ceremony, at which all the right people got pretty drunk, which I guess is part of what's supposed to happen.

I'll have more to say, but for now we just want to get the photos up here so you can see what it all looks like.

For those of you who are dying to send us your support, the next thing we're going to need is a wood stove that is more efficient than the open fire you'll see here, and that has a chimney to take the smoke out of the house.

hasta pronto...y feliz navidad,
un abrazote,
Ann
p.s. come on, admit it...we have the cutest outhouse you've ever seen! And it works like a charm.

the outhouse