Muchas Mas Familia!

Is it possible... MORE family?!?!? SI!

This morning we left at 9 am to go to Ocotlan with Fernando, four of his sisters and their boyfriends and husbands and little niece (we were in two cars) for breakfast.Friday is the market day there and we ate inside of the permanent mercado.As you can see, Sebastian was thrilled to be up early and to have me take, yet more, photos.

Every outing is a surprise and after a visit to the church, which was beautifully painted with lovely, well dressed saints, we got back in the car to go visit ...more family! This part of the family lives in San Martin Tilcajete , a village known for it's carved animals.Part of Fernando's family are in this artful business! We went to two casas and shared the road with a herd of goats having their comida!
I took photos of the animals as they were being carved and then painted- it's quite a process and the end result is colorful and very imaginative.
If you look closely at the photo of the table of animals, Seb's Tia Lena bought the black and white cow for Seb.












Seb and his second cousins played on the swing in the yard and then went to the local tienda (shop) to buy some homemade cuetes. Little Panchito (in photo with Seb)immediately connected with Seb and worked up such a sweat lighting and throwing cuetes that he had to remove his sweater! He is six years old and a total chatterbox! Both of the girls also had great fun lighting and throwing cuetes.I tried not to be too panicked that someone might lose a finger.

We had a really delicious comida of a frijoles negros con hierbas (black beans with herbs) made by Seb's great aunt(in photo with Seb). She showed us a really precious piece of pre-Columbian
pottery- a nearly complete angel playing a guitar- that she found up in the mountains behind the house.After we all admired it's beauty, she gave it to Sebastian! A very precious gift, indeed!