Matlapa with Doug(brother)

We decided that Doug being the adventurous person that he is, that when he came to visit we would take him to the interior to a town called matlapa. It is 8 or 9 hours into the interior. Or Phil claims that is is 7 hours but I guess it could be if you drove 180 kmh. We stayed with a family that we know. The family is Benjamin, his wife Esther, Daughter Jasmine, Daughter Janet, son Hiudo, and son in law Fabian. The entire family is amazing. We stayed with them and had a wonderful time. The temp. was a balmy 47 degrees above. We swam in the river and there is a picture of that, also we met a boy there that did not speak a word of spanish and doug decided to take a picture of him. Also a family we met at the river asked us to stay for a meal so Doug had his first crack at mexican food, I mean real mexican food. Tortillas soaked in Chile. Anyway we had a wonderfull week with him and He loved the whole week. We also had some free time so we went to the beach, where we forgot to put suntan lotion on and were lobsters after one hour, and are still suffering from it. We also took doug and showed him around Matomoros and he helped us on a families house that we built. The house was one of the mustard seed families and were very excited to recieve a new house. Anyway this is my second crack and this blog thing so I will post it before I screw it up again. Also while we were in Matlap we went to a near by city called Hilitla. To put a long story short a man named Edward James built a Castle type place and kept 60 mexican families employed for many years. We walked around this place and it is beautiful.