more of the village

I know it is a lot of pictures of the village, but we had such an interesting time! We went with some neighbors that we have made friends with and they are from this village. It was beautiful out their, up in the mountains and GREEN; ayden was so excited to see grass!
But when i say village that is what i mean. We were probably only 30 or 45 min. outside of the city and the last 10 or 15 min. was off of the main hwy and on dirt roads. There was no running water in the houses we went in and in one house kristy visited the bottom floor smelled like a stable and had left over hay laying around. The donkey was tied right outside the door and upstairs where we had tea and snacks there were flies everywhere. It was so sad to me but the women there seemed so happy I was there and they offered me hot tea and lots of snacks (some of which i have no idea what they were). But i was shooing flies to get the food from the plate to my mouth. Then I noticed that i was the only one doing that, i guess they are that used to it.
Other then that visit we spent most of our time with the two families we went with. Plenty of them to keep us busy, I think there are 12 kids in one family and close to that in the other. we walked a lot and helped them pick beans and spent lots of time just sitting and drinking tea and talking (well kind of talking, none of them speak Eng. so there was very broken conversations).
Kristy went to the wedding thing both afternoons, at least 200 women in a very small room. sitting basically on top of each other with very loud music playing and two or three getting up to dance at a time. It was a little over whelming. The first day I had Addie and Annielynne sitting on top of me and they both ended up in tears. No where for them to move or go and they were not the only kids crying. Finally I decided that it was time for us to get out of there and the kids could literally not walk to the door for the number of people so they were handed over from one woman to the next to get to the door and then i tried to step in between women. But I just found it so interesting, this was the wedding (at least the last 2 days) the bride sat in a chair that was higher then everyone else, while everyone else sat on the floor or stood and danced, while we listened to music that was way to loud. Some of the first days of the wedding are a little different, one day she spends the day getting henna and one other day that I went to was basically the same just minus some of the fancy dresses. They were still dressed up just not quite as fancy.
I was surprised though that out in the village a lot more women left on their baltos and all most all left on their scarves. Maybe they just didn't have a fancy enough dress? i don't know.

well sure that is enough, just wanted to give you a little insight on our trip to the village!