Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Magdalena and El Gorrion....work day 1

Mario, pastor, veterinarian, and Chicken Man....

Mario and Oscar....

Herman inspecting the four almost completed coops...

Josh....our team foreman...


Listening to instructions...that could change any minute!

Josh and Brian and Oscar working on the chicken coops...

Time for lunch.....

Instant playground....

Dumping the dirt on the neighbor's yard that will
become a garden...

Joyce, Frieda and Dianne...
A small kitchen that will have an 8x5 foot hole in it...


Evan...


Leanne....

A much better view....Philip and Greg and Julia..

The rear view of digging the cistern....


A little someone waiting to see Dr. Jeff...


Justin and Dr. Jeff....


Joyce, Dr. Jeff, Sharon, Terri and the doctor from Magdelena
Our medical team....

Sunday, May 3, 2009

LOVE GUATEMALA SPRING 2009

Our new grandson, Joaquin...so precious.


Some of our gals are not pleased that
this moth was so big.... that and all the
water beetles...

Greg "torturing" Dr. Jeff.....

Back at the hotel....
Greg was giving Philip a massage and
found just the right tight muscle!

A little person looking forward to his ice cream...

This tiny grandma was very excited when Dorothy
gave her a balloon.

We had fun handing out balloons to the kids on the street...


Greg found some deep fried corn dough.
A version of our popcorn twists.....

Antonio and Lydia....our friends.
We buy all of our product from them to sell in Canada.

Terri, shopping, shopping, shopping.....

Katya and Sterling, emailing friends.

Lidia, our "mother" at the hotel.

Brian was more content!

Nolan getting a facial with macadamia cream....
Actually he survived!!!

OK, who is the "nut" in the group?
Visiting the Valhalla Macadamia Farm.
They provide education and trees to the indigeous people
so that they can grow the Macadamia trees and make a living.

Philip and Ivan Gabriel, the artist. Ivan has been all over the world
showing his amazing painters...no lessons, it is a gift.
We invited him to do a show in Vancouver.

Visiting Compalapa.....a town of famous artists


Visiting the ruins at Iximche Tecpan


Now tell me again, Phil, who is on the team????


Our Spring Love Guatemala Team....