made for a great photo op but kind of scary as I am sure if I had not shown up at that very moment he would have been out the window…

As Stacie posted earlier, Sennet’s first time on a boat was the journeys back and forth across Lago de Atitlán, nestled between three volcanoes in the Guatemalan highlands (Los Altos). At one point I asked him if he liked it, and he nodded his head vigorously and said yes. Then he looked out at the […]

One night in Antigua while Tía D was with us, we all went out to dinner at restaurant El Sabor del Tiempo on one of the main streets just up from parque central. We sat in a window seat right on the sidewalk. During dinner kids and ladies kept coming up to the window to […]

For the second day in a row we took Sennet down to the Seattle Center for the Bumbershoot music festival. We took him to see Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, where he danced his ass off and had people coming out of the crowd to dance with him. We then took him to see […]

If you have read or seen the movie “The Help”, this title line may seem familiar to you. If you haven’t read the book- do it now! It is really amazing. If you haven’t seen the movie- do that too but only after you read the book! The book is about African American women who […]

It dawned on me today that Sennet has experienced many firsts on our trip to Guatemala. He got his first passport (at the ripe old age of three). He took his first red eye plane ride. First trip out of the country. First time seeing lightning. First time hearing thunder. First mosquito bite. First time […]