Monday in celebration of the Día de la Virgen de Guadalupe, the Casa de la Cultura had a big cultural celebration with marimba music and cultural dancing.  They dressed me traje tipico from Santa Maria Chiquimula, a municipio of Toto, and had me act as one of the judges for the dances.  There were the most adorable little children, some as young as 2, dressed in typical dress from various regions in Guatemala. Most of my kids from camp were there as well to watch.

My cooking club and I met for the last time yesterday in my house and baked brownies and today we had our end of theater camp party.

This past weekend Christina hosted the best Christmas party I have ever been to – an ugly Christmas sweater party.  More than 16 of our friends were there, we had a great three team game of charades, tacos, too much booze, and a white elephant gift exchange where everyone gets a number and you have a choice of picking from the pile of unwrapped presents or stealing someone else’s gift.  I ended up with a motorized toy helicopter.