We made it! We arrived in Guatemala yesterday afternoon, and it couldn´t have been easier. Got the TriRail to Miami Airport, took a short flight (2 1/2 hours) to Guatemala, grabbed a shuttle to Antigua. It went like clockwork!
We´re staying at a pretty cool hotel, a few doors down from this church (La Merced). Our second floor room looks out over the top of the church, and has a view of three volcanoes! It´s pretty awesome for just over 18 bucks a night. Fun feature - some dude goes up in the bell tower and smacks the heck out of the bell with a hammer or mallet or something at 6am. So, there´s a free wakeup call. He goes up again at 6:15 and 6:30, just in case it didn´t rouse everyone the first time. (Kind of like a snooze alarm.) Of course, the fireworks at 6:10 worked, too. We were actually glad to get up that early, we wandered around with our cameras and took advantage of some great early morning light.
We met up with my ex (John) last night, he is flying back to the US today. The last time we saw him was in Thailand on our honeymoon, which was actually much weirder (this time our meeting was planned, and we had a nice chat over some cold Gallo beer).
That´s it for now. More updates to come!
(P.S. Photo courtesy of a nice guy posting on Flickr, offering Creative Commons usage. I´ll probably continue to use that, as it´s much easier than trying to upload our photos in internet cafes. We´ll post some of those once we return from the trip.)
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