a few photos real quick

To get my quetzales (money's) worth out of my internet time today, I decided to aprovechar (take advantage) and post a few pictures even though I have no content to post with them. Hope you enjoy anyway!

I made José Arulfo a chocolate cake for his 16th birthday just like the one I made for Kate´s going away party (see photos below) - because he kept joking that I was in debt to the family, specifically him, for having baked that other cake and then taken it away. But this one didn't want to come out of it´s pan... so we frosted it and lit it up as-is. I think it tasted just as good. :)

Maybe you all think taking pictures of my own clothes drying on the line is weird, but I just liked the look of the scenery and the little bit of town (Toto) that's visible through the washline.
And also that pinabete (avies guatemalensis, the pine tree to the right that's an endagered and beautiful fir species) that my host mom is AWFUL proud to have growing in the yard.

A beautiful sunset over Totonicapán, no?

Rainbows are a rarity here, because when it´s raining it´s usually completely cloudy and no sun makes it through at all.