As you can see here, Mackenzie was very, very EXCITED when she realized that the small area she´s pointing to was HER WASHING MACHINE!! A rough rock area to hand scrub our clothes... Yep, homeschooling home economics on the way!!!!
Our washing tub consists of a center area, pictured above, that holds the CLEAN water. Each side has the scrubbing tub that Mackenzie was so thrilled about!
To wash the clothes, one important factor is to keep the clean water CLEAN...so you use a bowl to scoop the clean water into your washing area.
Here´s Mackenzie scrubbing away! I wonder if my children will ever complain about putting clothes into the washing machine or dryer at home??
Yep, as you probably guessed, this is the clothes dryer! The kids were really shocked at the ¨softness¨of the clothes after drying the San Lucas way!!! (smile) 
Okay, so from now on, we´ll be doing laundry every other day instead of waiting about 5 days!!!
Mac and Mom having a great GIRL CHAT TIME. We had so much fun talking about everything, some laundry teaching, of course. But most of all, I realized that we had such a great time being together, being forced to stand side by side and make the very hard work that we were doing FUN, and if we were doing laundry at home, the couple minutes of sorting and throwing the clothes into the automatic machine, well we wouldn´t have had all those fun conversations!!!! Although doing laundry this way is very hard, we had a great time! Maybe we´ll make some muscles -- these women in San Lucas Toliman ARE STRONG!!
Sean and Dad show up. Sean wanted to learn, too, (great homeschooling kid he is!!). So while learning, of course, he ends up with two teachers!! smile. He did a great job. And since he´s so good at it, I´m thinking he definitely needs to take over doing his own filthy socks while we are here!!! I can´t believe how WHITE the locals´whites are.
Pat doing some laundry too. He enjoyed himself, too!!!
WOW...I think we have TOO MANY clothes!!!
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