Antigua and the City

Since the leaving drinks were over so early Chelsea and I slept in. I wanted to but her tuc tuc (like a 3 wheeled bicycle but with a motor and roof) driver showed up at 7.30am and made a racket under my window. I turned around again and emerged from my room somewhere around 9am. Chelsea was already up and watching TV. Ema and the rest of family were out and about. I had breakfast and than we both just chilled and watched TV. Later on we decided to take the bus to Antigua because we wanted to change money, book up a seat for the shuttle to the beach for the next day and a trip for the next weekend. We walked over the market and than in the street bumped again into her tuc tuc driver. He kept on babbling forever so we missed going to the bank since it was closed. Chelsea has been sick for a while and decided to get some medicine here. The pharmacy we were in was well stocked and she got what she needed. Isaak stayed with us and I wanted to go on on line so I did that and afterwards we sat in a patio and had a drink. So far the best smoothie ever and definitely worth the 20Q! I´ll be going back there. WE walked back to the bus stop and once back at home. Ema and Mario showed up from a visit with relatives. Mario and Milton went to church since it is the yearly Mormon meeting partly also in Jucotenango. Ema fixed us dinner and we had a little chat. Chelsea tried to call a friend no luck so since she had never gone out before on a Saturday and we only knew that it would be crowded we were debating if we should go yes or no. In the end it took us forever to find an empty tuc-tuc to get into town. We met a real fun crowd of 10 people and ended up sticking with them for various bars. The best part was that they couldn´t´t remember anymore where they had parked their car and the running joke is now ¨Dude where is my car?¨ They had come from the City just for the night. In the end it was Alex, Alex, Paulo and us two who headed for the City together. I would class where we are staying around middle class (mid section). The fact that this group was paying with credit cards, had been abroad frequently gave me an indication that they were well to do same goes for the car. Cars are a status symbol here! Chelsea and me only looked at each other once we saw the place from Alex - it was awesome! Chelsea didn´t sleep at all, while we all crashed for an hour of sleep more or less. Got to meet Alex´s brother as well Nikolas and his friend. Basically we had the music so loud that it woke them and we all had good laughs until 6am. Once we all were awake more or less and were dressed they took us to a restaurant to get some food since we had ransacked the fridge in the morning hours. They drove us back to Jocetenango. We all had forgotten that due to Eastern all the processions are going on and to get into Antigua was something that took forever. They dropped us off at our door step and we got the cell phone numbers to call. It might be interesting therefore to meet up again. Alex is a darling he gave us an old mobile of his and I will buy a SIM card tomorrow and than we are finally mobile since we didn´t have our home phone number with us to call Ema to tell her that we would be staying out over night. Alex speaks pretty good German as does Paulo and we had some good laughs!
Now I am freshly showered and had a change of clothes. When I get back to the house wonder if Chelsea managed to reach Enzo who owns her a dinner at his restaurant for being his good luck charm at poker o,) Would suit us perfectly since we are short cash in local currency!

Guatemala in general here in this area doesn´t even come close to what is described in on the web pages of the Foreign Ministry. People are very friendly and so far on one had a story to tell where anything had happened to them. I am glad that I am not blond since that means they get the whistles, cat calls and the 3 top questions here are what is your name, how old are you, got a boy-friend or such if yes than comes in that case we could be ¨amigos speciales¨ wand otherwise they just bug you. The climate is easy to adjust to and I have gotten already a bit of color. My stomach isn´t acting up and I am not sticking to everything 100% like brushing my teeth with bottled water e.g. For them the weather here is a really odd because it is really hot here during mid day and than at night it cools down (they get their heavy sweaters out, jackets; we tourists are mostly fine with a light blouse) and we already had our first rainy afternoon. That is for them very unusual since it isn´t winter yet! Here in Jocotenango I am finally getting my bearings since in the beginning the four colors made it kind of difficult to make sure were you are going since none of us look at street names. We get around by picking up landmarks o