No pictures today, because we´re way up in the highlands in Nebaj, Guatemala, and yesterday the internet connection cut out on me unexpectedly. I´m just happy to be online at all! Since I wrote last time, we have been all the way to the small village of Villachuato, Mexico, for Nick and Elizabeth´s wedding and now are all the way back up in the Guatemalan highlands.
The wedding was wonderful, though travel to it was a bit chaotic and I ended up with food poisoning (but I´m okay now). We are really glad we went! First of all, Nick and Elizabeth, who we know from Seattle, are very special people and it was so good to see them tie the knot. It was also good to see a bunch of Seattle people, who also made it to the wedding. In addition, the wedding was like wedding-palooza, with a seventeen-piece, all female mariachi group called Las Estrellas de Michoacan. In addition, there were three other live bands on two separate stages and the whole village came--it was a huge party!
Back in Guatemala, we headed almost immediately up to the Quiche highland region, where Peter spent 3 months doing work with the Defensoria Maya. When we first got into town, we started looking for his old host family from here and ended up just running into them at the bus stop! It was amazing to meet them and I will post pictures of them next time--they were thrilled to see Peter and kept saying. ..it´s like a dream! Then, we came up to Nebaj, which was one of the hardest hit areas during the civil war, but which is definitely making a comeback, with a lively market and new tourist industry. This afternoon, we have signed up to make a local specialty with a Mayan lady in her house and tomorrow we´re going on a guided hike. . .more on those next time!
Love, Robyn and Peter
