Our next door neighbors (the other side from Kyle and Tim) have an Aussie named Rex and a guinea pig named Chester. Last summer we animal-sat for them for a week. This week, we had Chester stay with us for almost five days. Luis loves Chester, so I thought this would be a nice treat for him. Turns out that Diego liked Chester A WHOLE LOT, while Liz, Jules and JF also had fun with him.
Everyone was pretty concerned that Ashley would harm to Chester. She was very curious about him, sniffed him a lot, but was very kind to him. It looks like she's about to chomp him in half in this picture, but she's not.
Guinea pig in Spanish is "Cuy" (think "muy" in Spanish). Cuys show up in all sorts of places in hispanic culture: they roam free in the house (in packs) and act as guardians, swarming around and squeaking when a stranger comes, as part of some carnival game where a cuy is placed in the middle of a bunch of numbered boxes - when he runs for cover, the person who picked the number of the box he ended up in wins (apologies if I didn't get this game description just right), and on the table as a meal. I'm not kidding. At least once a day, someone (not me or Luis) would make a joke about at which meal the Cuy would be served.
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