Not This Year, Part Deux

Where was I?

When we knew for sure we would be in Mexico for February we reserved in our minds Feb 17 as the date of our nuptials. Our friends and family could escape winter and would all finally meet at our new home on the beach. Unfortunately that was all we could do, having never been here, knowing no one, we took a leap of faith, and planned to plan a wedding ceremony and reception upon arrival.

And then our lived became blissfully complicated. The newness and strangeness Merida, our foreignness, experienced for the first time, a language barrier, all conspired to keep us busy. Even though we found a house we love almost immediately, we are still unable to move forward. We are prisoners of beauracracy, as we wait in our furnished apartment for ejido paperwork fromt he government.

from wikipedia: The ejido system is a process whereby the government promotes the use of communal land shared by the people of the community. This use of community land was a common practice during the time of Aztec rule in Mexico.
It was not until the colonization of Mexico by the Spanish and other European settlers that this practice seemed to disappear and be replaced by the encomienda system. The encomienda system was abolished by the Constitution of 1917, with the promise of restoring the ejido system. This, however, did not happen until Lázaro Cárdenas became president in 1934. The purpose of restoring the ejido system was to give land back to the people and provide more food for the community. Under the ejido system, the land is owned by the government and is supported by a national bank.

We´ll finish this up tomorrow, okay Chickens?