Pension Mesa Guatemala City

... missed her flight to Guatemala. And no, mom, she
wasn´t sleeping or being a space cadet or anything, her connecting
flight was delayed. When she finally arrived and was about to deboard
the plane, it was 6:35 pm. And her flight had started boarding at 6:15
pm. Or so she thought. So she proceeded to run through the Miami
airport like a chicken with her head cut off, looking for Gate E5. She
passed E7, E6, then... E4? WTF? And let me tell you, the only thing
Guatemala City, Guatemala, Guatemala namaste32

... in Central America, so we have to hike up at dusk so that we can see the lava when we get to the top... torches and sticks in hand and we start to climb... a little tough but the last 30 minutes was hell... volcanic ash is so tough to climb on.. you take one step and it throws you back two steps.... get to the top, Stephen has to wait for me this time as we are in a tour group and the tour guide has to lead due to the danger involved....

No this is going to ...

... and got considerably shorter and thus was no longer of any use to a 6ft 5 man.

Dave was nicknamed Gigantor, because compared to the Guatemalans he looked huge and in fact at the Yellow House the receptionist told him he was “their most famous guest because he was so tall.” We hung out on the mountain, until our shoes threatened to melt into the rock and the light began to fade as the day came to a close. We headed down the mountain on ...

... to the other ferry terminal only slightly embarassed. We pass some stores that are selling beer that we are missing ... but don't have time to stop. Oh well.

The ferry looks full. It wasn{t. We pile in with all our gear in the front. Nothing too crazy happens on the journey.

We are heading across the lake to a resort that Lynn has stayed at before. She´s sharing it with us so we can experience it´s ...

... immer leben in der Bude. (Was natürlich als fleißiger Student der sehr viel neues lernen muss nicht so gut weil etwas laut ist. Das Essen ist einfach aber gut. Hauptsächlich Reis, schwarze Bohnen, Kochbanane und halt viel Gemüse. Hin und wieder auch etwas Fleisch aber nicht so viel. Man wird satt und ansonsten muss man ja auch nur das Haus verlassen und kann für wenig Geld auf der Straße essen , da wird gegrillt oder es gibt alles möglich in Teig gegart. Popusa ...

We got up early in the morning and headed to the zoo. The zoo is very colorful. Since it was Sunday it was packed. They have all kind of animals, from elephants to lions, bears, birds, snakes, llamas, and so on. It took us about 3 hours to walk all the zoo. As we were having lunch it started to rain really hard including thunders and lightning. The rain was over soon but the ...

... sticks so we roasted marshmallows over the lava before heading back down the mountain. It was really hot and hard to breathe the closer we got to the magma. It also was kind of scary because the volcano could have spewed more lava at any time and we could have been forced to run down the rocky mountain in hopes to escape it. Luckily though we just got to see a magma flow about one foot wide down the ...

Hey everyone! It's been awhile. Hope you're all doing well. Send me emails, I enjoy the news from home (jdn719@mail.usask.ca). Lots to tell you! I'm going to breeze over most it and hopefully bring you up to speed. Mmm, for the sake of ease, I'll do this in pseudo-bullet point form. Last, last week Lent began (Cuaresma in Spanish) and I spend much of a Sunday afternoon hanging out watching crazy processions, marching bands, guys in Roman-style ...