We realized while telling stories of our travels we have never really filled you in on the day to day of our life here in Acapetahua. We work in an office (sometimes). Below is a picture of Travis working at our corner of the meeting table that we use of a desk (shared with a defunct TV and variuous boxes). There are 15 people who work in our office and only 8 desks. We managed to steal a chair from reception but sometimes have to share the wooden chair in the background (which is broken, and falls apart if you use the backrest). Currently the fans do not work which makes working in the 95 degree heat a bit unbearable. We do have wireless internet and ONE phone for the whole office. I never thought a government office could run on one phone. But here we are. Notice the tire in the background, sometimes there are leaking batteries and gas tanks in that room too. There are pigeons living in the ceiling and a mouse that lives in the wall next to our "desk". I refuse to use the office bathroom which is outside in the courtyard. I have no problem with the bucket flush if there was water available but there never is. There is however ALWAYS giant cockroaches in the bathroom. I choose to hoof the 3 blocks back to our house when I get the call of nature.
Part of our job involves going out ot various communities. We worked out at an embarcadero (boat launch) during the holidays. the best part of the day was when the fishermen brought their fish to the fish buyer who takes the fresh fish to hotels and resorts all over Mexico. This sailfish or "pez bella" was sold to a fish buyer for 100 pesos ($10!!!).
These are some baby Jaguarundi kitties that had lost their mom in a fire. We kitty-sat them for a day deeding them raw meat and milk from bottles. They were fiesty.
Jaguarundi full grown (web photo)
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