Land Transfer

Wednesday. We're moving on well.

The seller can't give us his ownership document because it has more land on it than just ours so he lends it to us to take to the assistant mayor and to photocopy. I visit the mayor with Anne for good Spanish back-up, Georgia is busy getting her last day party together for the kids, at about 12 noon. High noon?

We are greeted by his vicious, but thankfully chained, dog and a glowering mayor . Have we woken him from a siesta?

Anne speaks for us and he explains what he can do. We help speed up the process and he promises the completed document by 4pm - the same day.

We return the seller's document - have a mad party while I also tidy up and upload a website for the Unificacion Maya event organised by IxCanaan - then I'm back to the mayor by 5pm.

He has done the document. All seems in order...except...uh oh....he has our nationalities down as Canadian. Another volunteer who is Canadian is also buying a small piece of land and going through this whole process with us. I point this out and he says he will correct it by 7am Thursday but I must bring a Spanish speaker with me as he has something technical to explain.