Aguada Hotel Cayo

... The discussion then turned to how important it is to not use your cellphone during meetings. (note: during this discussion, most members were ON their cellphones). Today's meeting started about 25 minutes late in an AIRCONDITIONED!!!! room at the station. Ryan had designed a logo for CERT and that was the main focus for tonight's agenda. We talked about the logo for over an hour. Mostly to say how great it was. Then me, Laurel and Ryan were ...

... up our guide, a 40-50 yr old native to the area with a machete at hand. He hopped on the boat and we headed up the river and started hunting for creatures. We saw tons of awesome birds including egrits, kingfishers and herons and a bunch i dont remember. There were a ton of baby and full grown crocodiles, turtles, lots of crazy trees and flowers. we got off the boat for a short jungle hike and saw some howler monkeys up close and personal. we stood ...

... San Ignacio is located, but we can do the exact same staff in Guatemala for less then half the cost, so we decided to push off the next morning and get to Flores in Guatemala, our base to visit Tikal ruins. That night we went into town for dinner, befote going back for some beers at the pad. Marcas had lit a huge Bonfire which was pretty damn cool and talked **** with all the guests before calling it a night. We head off to Guatemala tomorrow morning.

... see was filled with plastic forks. On to San Ignacio. The roads there are beautiful and lush filled with foothills and bright coloured trees called Flamboyants. We finally arrive at Cornerstone and I am given a quick tour and a few introductions to volunteers that are there. I am told I will be the 10th volunteer there. After unpacking my stuff (10x10 foot room, four girls + stuff), I relax. And relax. And wait. For something to ...

... 100te Gaenge laufen, durch Baeche durch usw bis man bei einer grossen Hoehle ankommt, in der eine Maya Begraebnisstaette liegt. Dann darf man nur noch in Socken laufen und darf ueberall ganz nah ran! In die Hoehle darf man nur in Begleitung eines vom Staat linzensierten Fuehrers, weil sie geschuetzt werden soll. Hoert sich sehr beeindrucken an, oder? Dort wo wir die Tour gebucht haben, hatten sie ein kleines Baby ...

... Tree, right outside San Ignacio. It's very cool, because I am getting to sleep in a tree house! We went and saw a cool cave with some mayan archeological artifacts today, and very cool stalactites and mites. Then we headed to some waterfalls and went swimming in the water. It was a bit chillier than the ocean, but still way warmer than our swimming up in hte ...

We ended up going to Barton Creek instead of Mountain Pine Ridge as we were stitched up by the Eva´s Restaurant Outfit. Long story but we were not impressed. But the Bartons Creek tour was good and the guide (Johnny) knew his stuff. The tour was a canoe trip into the ...

... dentist that made a lot of sense. He explained most of what we do is a result of 'marketing' and not fact. We have adjusted our brushing and look forward to sharing our discovery with others. Staying on the farm has its benefits; like getting to watch a steer get butchered. Fortunately, I had laundry to do so I missed the first part of this scene. The kids thoroughly enjoyed this experience as it was certainly an anatomy lesson to say the least. Monique ...

... And so much sweat. Oh dear. So humid down there, and the hard work of all of it was making me an attractive sweaty *****.mm mm. Plus there was so much clay going on down there and you had to slide down some things on your **** or scramble around, I was looking like a clay covered beast too. Also, wearing trendy zip-off-section trousers I had shorts for the jungle and cropped ones for the caves. Until one of the zips decided to work its way back undone (you know ...

... from Maryland had decided to do full day Barton Creek cave tour after hearing us rave about how good it was. They told us that they'd heard that Crystal Paradise was going to have a group of 14 arriving that evening. Apparently, we had picked the perfect time to have the place pretty much to ourselves. Of course, we'd have gladly traded the "quiet" of having it to ourselves for less heat and Cicadas. If we go back ...