Cholula

While we are having the house on the church built, we are living in a city called Cholula--a suburb of Puebla. Cholula is an ancient city centered around a Aztec pyramid. When the Catholics came from Spain 500 years ago they buried the pyramid because it was the center of worship. On top of the pyramid they built a cathedral that is...really huge and cool looking. :)) There are tunnels at the base of the pyramid for people to tour that don't have problems with claustrophobia.
In spite of this not being a large community, it is staunchly and proudly Catholic--they brag of having a Catholic church for every day of the year--365, except for on the leap year, they hurry and build a new one then knock it down. Just kidding...

Anyways, if you stand on the top of our house on one side, you will see this:


...and this. The big church on the hill. Today Grampa/Elder Glenn Wakefield climbed up to the church THREE times. Here is our encouragement to his leg muscles: Burn baby, BURN!!
To Aunt Debbie: Don't you wish you were here to appreciate this wonder in motion?! (Heehee! We loooove you!)

This is the church at night. Magnificent. Lit up like a Christmas tree.
...OOPSIES!! Uh...I mean like a house-a-fire...

Look the other way and you'll see this. A big mountain with smoke coming out the top of it. Ever heard of a volcano? We have such 'great' luck. Every time it explodes, we are out of town. :( Actually, once we were here when it erupted. The sky filled with this humongous cloud, then ash started raining down. Everything was covered. It was pretty cool.

From where I am sitting right now, this is what I see:

Corn!

When we moved here about a month and a half ago, the corn stalks were about a foot tall. Now they are taller than I am. (That's pretty tall!! 5"3...Haha!)