In the jungle

Well were in Peten now and so much has happened over the last few days, it´s been a long journey to where we are. After we ate a bunch of fatty fair food in Xela and lounged in the gorgeous thermal pools, we heading north past Huehuetenango to Todos Santos, which was awesome. I was a bit sick, but it was a cool spot. People here were very poor and yet very friendly and the kids just wanted to play. I played a lot of marbles and we meet a lot of little kids that wanted to practice their spanish with us. For the majority of kids in this town schooling stops after grade 6. in fact there is no high school about at all and people have to go to a different town for any more education, which just doesn´t really happen.

All the girls is this town leave to weave and start at about age 10. If they don´t learn to weave how can they become good mothers and wives, because they cant make clothes for their families?! Don´t worry about algebra, but these women really can weave and make amazing clothes. the mean mostly wear the traditional clothes as well and it is a great site to see. the town was great and we bought a few little pieces of fabric to remember the place by. I wasn´t feeling the best so i left meagan to make the decisions and it took her nearly 4 hours. I know her family out there can understand.

After Todos Santos we cruised through amazing scenery in no less than 5 different vehicles over about 12 hours to reach Coban. Coban sucks. it´s weird and it sucks. But we headed to the great tourist destination of Semuc Champey and it was amazing. We stayed close to the park and got up early to have the park to ourselves and about 2 others for a couple of hours before the masses arrived. It was awesome. I loved it.

Semuc Champey is a huge limestone bridge formed into swimming pools as a fast flowing river is subducted below the bridge leaving a smaller amout of water to trickle through the pools and provide people with an awesome place to swim. You really do feel like a big kid just swimming and diving and climbing from pool to pool and lounging and letting fish nibble on your toes before trying to dive about and catch some bigger ones. I LOVED this place it was awesome. The whole time i couldnt stop thinking about how many of ýou out there wold be loving this as well.

Today we are going to head over to San Andres (we´re staying in Flores) to see the place meagan lived last year as we wait and hang out for the arrival of.... Cap´n Scotty Boy Cincotta himself! He´s left his boat and been traveling in our wake for a while in Guatemala and we wanna catch up so hopefully we´ll see him soon.

Well i hope everyone is well, we´ll be traveling to tikal soon and be sure to make a sacrifice for my sisters and travis´s birthday. We´ll make a sacrifice to the God of the 30 yr olds for you travis and hope we don´t need a goat or something. Bub´s I´ll try and see if i can get a beer or two for you on me at knoppies, that´s a lot better than turning 30. ONLY joking travis, i´m not that far away.

Take care all