Guatemala

!Hola!, sorry for the delay but we´ve been pretty busy and the internet isn´t that easily accessable around here (and crazy slow when it is). Took me two hours to update some photo´s the other day!

Anyhoo, we left Antigua on Monday morning heading to Panajachel on a "chicken bus". Before we left Becky saw her first Humming bird ever which she´d said she really wanted to do. The three and a half hour journey cost us Q75(USD$10) between us and was pretty friendly. It would appear that when North American school buses become unsafe they send them down to central america to be used as public transport. About half way through a preacher jumped on and start shouting for about an hour about cristo y diablo and then sat with Becky and I on our two person seat.

We got to San Pedro La Laguna (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Pedro_La_Laguna) and have been here for the past three days. It´s a little village on the shores of Lake Atilan and surrounded by mountains and volcanoes. We´ve been taking an intensive spanish classes of quatro horas a day one-on-one instruction. It turns out that I actually can speak french, but only when I try to speak spanish. I keep drudging up french I´d never thought I even knew. There are avacado trees and coffe trees all over the place. The flesh of the actually coffee bean fruit is suprisingly sweet.

There are loads of tiny mayan ladies wandering around in traditional weaved garb trying to sell stuff balanced on their heads. My particular favourite was a woman strolling about with a choclate cake on her head, complete with icing. She came up to us whilst we were enjoying $1 mojito´s...that´s right baby! $1!! Also a litre bottle of beer is about $3...danger

We happened across a funeral in the town yesterday. They were parading the coffin in and out of streets complete with a brass band. The guy must have been pretty popular because he had quite the following.

We´re finishing our spanish class on Monday and plan to head to Tikal after this but who knows...