Just so you know, it's illegal to do this at home...

Ahhh, to be in San Lucas. After a good night of much needed rest, and a fabulous breakfast courtesy of Chona, Olga, and the other women who work in the kitchen, we promptly hopped in the back of a pickup truck. Didn't really this would be such a big deal to Lily, but you would've thought we asked her if she'd like to go to DisneyWorld! She promptly told Ronnie, "just so you know, even though it's illegal to pet the dogs here...it's illegal to do THIS in Minnesota! My Dad NEVER lets me ride in the back of his pickup truck!"

 I didn't exaaactly tell her that it was illegal, but I made it out that it was a pretty important rule, so "illegal" works I guess (;

We spent the day running around with old friends and a few new ones. I'll caption a few of the pictures below.

 A stunning view of the entire city from some land that Chona's son is currently cultivating. Coffee, avocados, lemons, medicinal plants and NATURAL fertilizers. Nature is so cool (:

 See, she had close supervision to prevent flying out. I know it's not exactly a seatbelt but...

 BEEHIVE!!! Don't worry, non-stinging kind (:

 We visited a really cool place called IMAP where Chona's son and wife work with people in the community on developing ecologically friendly ways of growing and cultivating different crops, but also developing things like sanitation and stoves in a healthy and NON-counter cultural way.

Lily would like to say that this is a glass couch, and she got to sit on it (:

 The pooper (: They use the refuse as fertilizer a couple years from now, don't worry, and NO, not on anything we eat (:

 A Maya agricultural calendar, tool dealy that you line up with the appropraite season, moon cycle, etc to learn what you should plant!!! We don't need this in MN at all!

 Eve is making friends too, Chona's grand daughter Mia (:

 I suck at wearing Eve on my back, but I'm trying none the less.

 While we were out picking coffee beans with Dave and Ana, Lily came upon some children playing and helping pick coffee. She was so over the moon to see other children that she ran up to them like a crazy Tarzan child and scared the crap out of them and they fell over. Their mom called them up the hill, probably frantic that this little gringo kid came out of nowhere. We were pretty embarrassed, but Luckily we had Dave and Ana with to explain that she was just really excited to see other kids, and they arranged a play date for tomorrow (: So now we are laughing about it...kind of. We had a long talk about how kids here don't play quite as crazy as we do. They are much more mild-mannered...we'll see if she picks up on it by Monday...