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1. Visiting Rosa's In-laws
in
Santa Apolonia

2. Mis Companeros:
Nico and Rosa

3. We are going to visit Tecpan

4. We traveled by Chicken Bus + MiniVan + Tuk Tuk

6. Tecpan Cathedral

7. Nico hails a taxi called Fast + Furious

8. Marco's sister,
Martina takes
us visiting the
Family

9. First to view from the San Apolonia ruins

10. Mayan stela incised
with the figure of a
head and featuring
and altar. This local
ruin was uncovered
as the town was
building a well head
at the site of the
mountain spring.

11. High meadow above the fields

12. The strawberry farm where they pick
100 pounds every three days and grow
Milpa (corn + beans) every three years.

13. The kitchen where
Elena raised her
eight kids

14. Elena Garcia R. ,
Marco's mom - Rosa's
mother-in-law .
We visited with her
parents and some of
the 40 plus cousins in
her children's
generation + we saw
some of the cousin's
kids.

15. Marco's youngest
sister, Adela, makes
breakfast tortillas

16. Three cousins leaving Grandparent's house as we arrive

17. More cousins

18. Elena's Parents

19. Marco's parents
Elena and Santoro-
Juan

20. The 4th
Generation

21. 3rd Generation
Granddaughter

22. 3rd
Generation
Grandson

23. Needleworkers kibitzing

24. Strange fruit that tastes like flat 7-UP

25. Four
Generations
Laughing

26. Rosa and Marco take Nico to see the ruins at Iximche.

27. Structures at Iximche
For more about Rosa see Dragoness' Utterances.