Successful Saturdays!

So, this is mainly a group of photos we have taken during our Saturday walks. You see, a couple of months ago, we started a new "tradition" of taking kids on hikes around the area. We'd have them meet at our place, and then we head out for a morning, or sometimes a full days hiking. It has been fairly successful and had some surprising results.

The most common participant has been the young girls. This is partly 'cause Katie is just sooo cool to hang out with, and partly because the girls don't usually get to wander around as much! We provide the "safe" traveling for them. See...boys are sent out all the time to go collect firewood ect... but girls only really get to go to the "molina" (mill) to take the prepared corn in the morning to make the "masa" for tortillas... and to school and church...that's about it! So they are all very exicited to take trip to the various "Cerros".

The other photos are of another successful Katie project, that of pine needle basket making with a group of women here. I'm hoping to get Katie to write a blog about this whole process, so for now I'll just post the photos of some of the products and one of the women who is making them. Enjoy the photos, which are all below!