Guatemala_ Last Week of February

Chicken Buses as they are called here is the main mode of transpiration (other then walking) for a large majority of the Guatemalan population. They are essentially public transit all over Guatemala. Each bus has it's own flare, and special name. Basically they are pimped out. I remember my first day in Guatemala seeing these buses roaring down the roads just packed with people. Like two the three people hanging out the front door packed. And even if they weren't prone to robberies and theft, I still don't think I would ride one based on the way I have seem them driven. Let's just say most of these drives think they're Richard Petty (for you older folks) or Jimmy Johnson (for you younger peeps).  

So the riddle was this:
7 kids are on a bus. Each kid has 7 back packs. Each backpack has 7 big cats. Each big cat has 7 smaller cats. How many legs are on the bus? 
After working the problem out I arrive at the correct answer. However, not being satisfied with the jumbled mess of numbers on my page, I thought their must be a formula for this. It was interesting because Ludin (Sam's Dad) found the answer differently then the rest of us did. The equation on the right is my method, the left was his. He fond the number of legs per kid. I found the number of legs be kids, big cats, and small cats. Ok, I know boring, skip to the next picture. Or you can try to figure out the answer. 

 I have been trying to convince Sam to buy one of these since we arrived. Needless to say he has not yet warmed up to the idea. It's kinda like a Smart Car, but the van size.

Rained really hard this afternoon. It was really refreshing. I enjoyed it a lot.