Million dollar mansion, a picnic, and a dog named Mongo

A nice afternoon on the lake, sunbathing on the deck of a million dollar mansion, swimming in the aqua blue water of lake atitlan and a great outdoor cooked lunch of tilapia, tortillas, rice with picante salsa and freshly squeezed lemonade picked from the trees on property. Top this off with a slice of mango pie. Priceless.

On another note, we now have a house cat. well sort off. I think it may belong to someone else, but every night it wanders off into the milpas (the name where our property is located and where my cabin is). It must be like like a couple months old and it's the cutest thing.. granted I spoil it quite a bit by feeding it corn bread, cinnamon rolls etc.Hopefully it will get along with Mongo, the guard dog of our house who literally looks like a white polar bear.'t He's like the cutest bear.. and I can"t quite understand how possibly he could be a guard dog. Every time I go back home, he's laying with laziness in his eyes. He's so loveable and last night I woke up to find him sleeping outside of my cabin door. We tried to feed him peanut butter out of humor last night just thinking that we could get some comic releif seeing him trying to swallow sticky peanuty delights on a tortilla... but the didn't take the bait. What else... Oh well.. The plan today is to work on residency application stuff aka my personal statement. I have to find some way to incoroporate my adventures in guatemala to make it sound interesting and a life changing experience.