Rebeca's room to Guillermo's office to guest room

We have been really busy these past two days. Yesterday, we started the process of rearranging Rebeca's room (which is now Guillermo's office, but don't tell Rebeca that) :-)

Today, we moved the recliner out of our room and did some other little changes to FOUR rooms of our house. Rebeca's room (a.k.a. Guillermo's office) is now ready for Rebeca and Jason, and when they leave, the room becomes Martina's room a few days later.

We are so excited and happy about Rebeca and Jason coming for Christmas. That only leaves 2 other people that we are sad won't be with us. Fernando and Eva. But, we are extremely happy for them to be spending Christmas in Borneo. Fernando wrote us today and it sounds like the two of them are having a wonderful time. Here is some of what he had to say:

--We're in a town called Lahad Datu for tonight and I just thought I'd write now before we head off again. We'll be out of contact again for a few days, so for now I'll say both happy anniversary and merry christmas! We've been having a good time. Gunung Mulu was great, the caves were really impressive and we saw a few nice birds. So after Gunung Mulu we stayed one night in Kota Kinabalu again. From there we went to Kinabalu National Park for a night. It's at around 5000 feet elevation on the slope of Mount Kinabalu, so the weather was cool and cloudy and the forest was very pretty, a bit like Monteverde. From there we went to a place called Sepilok, which had an orangutan rehabilitation center where former pets or orphans live semi-wild and show up for daily feedings. It was good seeing them but a bit zoo-like, even if they were completely free to roam around. Yesterday we went to a "jungle camp" on the Kinabatangan river and spent one night. We saw four kinds of monkeys (proboscis, long-tailed macaque, pig-tailed macaque, silverey langur), tons of birds, and a few crocodles, snakes and lizards. No orangutans, gibbons, or elephants though, but it was still very cool. The wildlife spotting reminded me of cruising the rivers in the Amazon lodges, but I think we probably saw more here (especially for only one night). Lahad Datu is nothing special, we're just here over night so that we can catch transportation to the Danum Valley conservation area tomorrow. The forest and wildlife are supposed to be really good there -- hoping for some gibbons and orangutans and a few more birds. We'll be there for two nights, then leave on Christmas day for the coastal town of Semporna. I'll probably write again from there. Hope all is well, and say hi to Rebeca for me whenever she comes.--

So, that's the latest from here. Christmas always brings exciting things and we've got quite a lot of excitement coming up!