Back to Guatemala City tomorrow to do the final DNA test and the required medical exam blah blah blah. Today is Thanksgiving, which seems like an odd holiday here in Guatemala. Some Europeans arrived in what was to become the US, and had a really nice harvest celebration with the indigenous people, whose ancestors would be slaughtered by later European arrivals. Here in Guatemala the indigenous people were basically enslaved, and forced to work on the land that they had worked for centuries, even though it was no longer theirs. Today, most of the ancestors of those indigenous people who lived on this land before the arrival of the Europeans continue to be landless on the land that they ruled for centuries. Many many things have happened since. If you have not seen this video of the evictions last January, of indigenous people who live where some foreigners want to set up their mining practice, please take the time to view it.

I know I promised I would not talk politics here, but I cannot resist this one piece. It has tens of thousands of views, so one little link on my blog should not be a problem.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q20YxkM-CGI

The princess and I had our Thanksgiving breakfast at the “best coffee in town” place again today. They staff there really like her, and she has fun running around.