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This is us getting fresh milk in the mornings. This truck drives by our front door around 6:30 or 6:40 every morning, with the driver honking the horn and the lady in the back yelling "Leche!" I can't remember now, but it seems like it costs about $2 for 4 liters. The milk is awesome. We boil it that morning and either drink it then or put it in the fridge to drink later. It's the best tasting milk we have had in a long time.

This is me and Carlos (the dad) cooking up the guinea pigs for the birthday celebration. They were de-haired the day before and marinated all night. Then we sharpened a couple of sticks and built a fire to grill them. We continued basting them with lard while they cooked. Like Amy said, the meat was delicious, much more so than I would have thought. The guinea pigs live in a little pen, and Suzanna's aunt (a hunched over old lady with no teeth who I can't understand) brings bunches of grass and herbs to feed them every day. We also feed them the peels of carrots and peas.

Here are the kids on the first day of school. The girl between Jorie and Audrey is Adela, who is 8 or 9. The kid behind Bentz is Josue, who just turned 11. Jorie turned 9 in August and Audrey just turned 7.

Here is Suzanna fitting Jorie with the traditional clothes for the first day of school. There are two skirts, which are really just bolts of cloth. Then they are cinched around with an embroidered cloth to make them not fall down. Unfortunately, Jorie and Audrey are not used to really tight waists, so their anacos kept falling down during the day, and we had to look for an indigenous lady to help us put them back together again. Probably one of the reasons that the girls decided that jeans was just easier.
Here is the road where we buy our vegetables (and chickens, which are plucked and sitting across the street). For a really big bag of nice fresh vegetables, it puts us back around $6.