It has been a busy last few weeks since I updated this blog. We have grown to about 10 people, plus 16 workers excavating at Uxbenka. The work has been exciting, hot, buggy, strenuous, and rewarding. In one plaza set back from the road we have found excavated an Early Classic (ca 400 AD) shrine complex in a large residential complex. We completed excavations at another shrine, far in the mountains, where I brought in an intrepid crew form California, the UK, and Hawaii. Despite the brutal conditions they did a great job documenting what may be the first large mountain shrine complex in the Maya Lowlands. Excavations have produced some really wonderful artifacts and even more interesting information. In between, on our occasional days off people have found time to swim into caves, visit other ruins, and mostly lounge around, enjoying a few cold beers in the evening. We only have three more weeks of work, but I plan to post at least three more blog-posts in that time.