Well babies, I´m here in Guatemala in the amazingly beautiful colonial town of Antigua. Its hard to describe how truly gorgeous this place is. Huge stone churches, cobblestone streets, and mountains surrounding as far as the eye can see (ethereal mist not sold seperatly). I would love to include some pictures, but I didn´t check the size of memory stick I bought and I got greedy and got the 2gb one-too big for my camera, so now I only got 50 pictures! Oh well, i will get that sorted out soon!
About the trip here: The wartchword for the day is EXHAUSTION! I stayed up all night packing because i hate to procrastinate, and so I got like an hour of sleep. Was DYING the next day (Kate was in a similar way). Fell asleep all over the miami airport and once while sitting on a toilet. Fortunety Kate was hopped up on enough caffeine to power a defibulator so we made it to all of our stops on time! arrived at Gutemal airport kinda nervous but Itwas practically empty and we hade no trouble getting a shuttle out of the city to antigua (only ten dollars for a trip of an hour and a half!) I was complelty entralled wiht Guatemala city, this bustling metroplois that looks like how I think miami should. Kate and I are discussing returning when our espanol is improved. About that: i'm actually doing pretty well comunicating wiht people all in spanish! (Yes, 35 thousand dollars of college debt put to use!) we arrived in antigua after dark so just basically got to check into the hostel and catch some much needed sleep. The hostel is clean and quaint,except that poor Kate chose the rickety top bunkbed with a matress about as thick as the ones the have in jail...today we awoke to sunlight,hot showers and a really yummy breakfast included. Pancakes with bananas and eggs with black beans. Coffee, thank God.
At an internet cafe now but gotta go an explore some more. Alread haggled on a dress for my neice, and heard the song INFORMER from a passing car at the bank...so far so great... more tomorrow or the next day.
Thanks for the comments...