Back to Antigua

After getting up at 5:20 to catch a 5:45 shuttle to Antigua, the shuttle guy showed up and informed Kate and I that they overbooked. We could get our money back or leave at 12:00. So I lost a night of sleep and a day in Antigua with Angel and John. On the 12:00 shuttle we figured out with our fellow travelers that they didn't overbook, neither shuttle was full so they combined shuttles. The fellow traveler from England who sat behind me needed us to pull over twice so he could vomit as a result of too many uterus shots at the Red Frog bar the previous night.

After this fabulous day of travel, I had a wonderful weekend with Angel and John in Antigua, Guatemala. We arrived Saturday evening and I'm leaving today (Monday) at 1:00. San Rafeal has today off for Day of the Dead. It was great hanging out with two of my best friends from the states in Guatemala. As they live in DC, I don't see them often, and usually stuff is going on and we don't get to spend a lot of time together when they are home. After our authentic Guatemalan dinner of peperoni pizza and beer last night, we headed towards the park where there was a giant procession of marching bands, men dressed up with banners, lots of incense, and, at the end, a huge lit up float, carried by people, with a life size plastic Jesus in a see-though coffin.

As Ang and John are here volunteering with GVI for two weeks, they headed out for their first day of stove building this morning. Hope your stomach holds out, John!

Still having trouble adding photos, even with the better internet here. Maybe later...