For the last ten years that we have lived in Guatemala, our family has enjoyed going outside at midnight on Christmas Eve to watch the fireworks display put on by many individual families. The beautiful display lasts about 15 minutes. Now that we live on our property, we have a view of a wide area. There were fireworks all the way to a mountain range in the distance! Next, we will repeat the fun experience on New Year's Eve!
December 29, 2020
Christmas Eve fireworks
December 14, 2020
Immigration
Earlier this year, before the pandemic hit, we tried to send our yearly paperwork. The immigration office didn't accept it because we hadn't paid our newly required yearly fee. So we tried to pay our fee, but the office closed for the pandemic while our lawyer's assistant was in line, and they didn't open again for several months. Then we tried again, but they had introduced a new document required for the girls and wouldn't accept their fee without it. So we paid to obtain those documents for the girls and submitted their fees. Then, after finally paying our yearly fees, we tried to submit our paperwork again, which we had to completely redo because it was now more than 6 months old. This time we were told we couldn't submit it because we had already paid our yearly fees, the opposite of what they told us earlier in the year. Go figure. Five trips to the immigration office and still no resolution to our yearly requirements!
The rules are often changing, and the information we receive from the immigration office seems to depend on which teller is asked or what day we ask! Let's hope things work better in 2021!