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| 700 am birthday firecrackers! to announce to the world it was my birthday! Set up by Blanca the hostel owner. |
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| apparently the crackers were quite loud!!!! |
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| Blanca giving me a hug! |
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| view of the market from up on some church steps. Chichicastenango Market Day. |
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| on the way from Panajachel to Casa Del Mundo! rough water...doesent look like it....but it gave us headaches and sore teeth! |
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| New Years Eve Festivities! Stacey and Chuck doing a tandem hula hoop demonstartion! |
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| ahhhh...this is the life! Good book...a beer, which is out of the picture...and a hammock! Life does NOT get any better! |
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| On the way to Livinston from Rio Dulce. Either Stacey is sticking her head in the way...or her camera moves in front just at the perfect, or not so perfect, time. |
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| Yes...there are mosquitos in Livinston. And since we had screen problems..and no windows to close...Stacey used her mosquito net for the first time. Karen on the other hand..couldnt get hers to work. So relied on her Malaria shot/pills. Which Stacey has neither! Note the beer in Staceys hand! |
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| shot of the jungle on Rio Dulce leaving Livingston |
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| Welcome to my domain! Feel free to bow at my feet and serve me cervesa! Yes my minions...show me your love! With BEER! |
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| Im sure we can eat these!!!!!!!????????? Didnt we have them in a salad the other night? |
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| Karen drinking a Gallo and dreaming of our next adventure!!!! Tikal here we come!!! |
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| Stacey having a gallo...and pondering.....you guessed it....GALLO! And will there be Gallo in our next adventure? |
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| TO the left....to the left....is the boat we would like to be sailing in! To the right....the one we can afford! |
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| Nothing like an old T shirt to cover your out board motor! |
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| LOOK...we have more tan and LESS chins! YES we are losing weight...you would too if you had to carry all our shopping around! PS...yes we are drinking Gallo! |
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| YYYAAAYYYYY..we are in Flores! Next stop, Tikal and possibly the best Mayan ruins in the world! |
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| In our .4 star hotel...we had a lovely cigarette stain in the toilet seat! Also hair in the sink, and on the floor...the beds...and of course we refrained from scrutinising the sheets...as at this point...WE JUST DONT WANT TO KNOW! |
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| Pack Man of the Chi chi market! the little bugger can carry a lot! |
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| Proud Guatemalan ladies! Gloating over the fact that they overcharged us for our purchase! |
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| Karen.....dissing the poor guatemalan ladies again! They sooooo wanted her to buy their wares!!! |
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| lovely view from the boat on the way to Casa Del Mundo from Panajachel |
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| view of one of the volcanos from our balcony! |
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| this is the laundry water of my volcano dust pants ONLY: They got that dirty climbing Pacaya in Antigua! |
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| a nice clear view from one of the treacherous paths winding through the property. By the way..the lake name is Lake Atitlan |
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| this is the balcony areas that are usually about 3 metres above the water line. Its been a very very rainy season! This is what we swam off of, and practices snorkeling from! Very slippery! DONT TRY THIS WHILE INTOXICATED! |
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| Chuck out for his morning swim! Stacey threw him in so she would HAVE to brave the cold water! It really was quite nice once we were in! |
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| The Lake Atitlan volcano monster surfacing to hunt DUCKS! |
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| lovely fountain outside our room! |
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| Karen was a little tired after climbing the 6 million stairs on the Hotel grounds! |
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| this lady said NO when I asked if I could take a picture! So I waited until her back was turned! This was on our hike up the 6 million stairs and over the mountain to Jaibalito village. |
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| Stacey and Chuck having a kiss! Celebrating living through our treacherous hike to the village! |
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| The three amigos! Which one do YOU think is the martest? |
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| AHHHHHH.....sunshine at last! |
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| Our Aussie friend Karen gettin busy with Chuck on New Years Eve! |
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| New Years HOT CHICQUITAS! Karen from Oz, Karen from Canada, Stacey and Chuck from Canada....and Selma (short for Selma Hayek as we could not say her name properly) from Spain, but living in Holland. |
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| Marco from Italy currently living in Holand (Selmas boytoy) and Mark from Oz (Karen from Oz boytoy) |
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| Karen and Selma...doing the Lambada...the forbidden dance! |
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| Chuck caught doing the mattress mambo with another duck on the way home from the celebrations next door! |
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| Karen and her Brahva.....mmmmmmm...beer makes shopping with the little local kids SOOOO much more fun! We are now in Panajachel for the night. |
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| Casa Del Mundo from the boat as we are leaving for Panajachel. |
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| It took them 2 days...but we finally caved and bought from them! |
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| And Karen bought from this gentleman the first day...then on day 2 traded her watch for some jewelry! Got a good deal too! |
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| One of the pimped out CHICKEN BUSES! They are formerly either from Canada or the US..and they pimp them out in multiple colors and decorations! |
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| And you thought the chicken bus was full..check out this truck! All these pics are taken while waiting for our late bus to go to Antigua for the night. |
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| view of Lake Atitlan through the bus window on our way to Antigua. |
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| now we are 2 days later in Rio Dulce...catching a boat to Livingston. The only way you can get there is by boat. ALso..the bridge is 3.5 km long..and the longest one in Central America |
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| Karen does not like this pic...but I think it is lovely.....hee hee hee hee |
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| little children trying to sell us stuff from their canoes on the way to Livingston! The little buggers really can paddle fast if you try to get away! They hang on to the edge of our boat..and do the central american version of bumper shining! |
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| MORE children swarming us! |
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| screen after we fixed it! WE LOVE our DUCT TAPE! |
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| hotel room screen before fix! On my camera these were haunted screens because they moved on the camera display! |
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| Karen about to run after the Gallo truck! |
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| Smelly dog that followed us around for 2 days...we dubbed him SHITTY PUPPY! See the story we will write next! |
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| YES....we met a strange man that convinced us to go into the Garifuna village. What was that you said mom...dont talk to strangers? And DEFINITELY dont follow them into a strange ghetto! AHHHH...we never listened to our mothers anyways! |
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| Philip....our Garifuna expert! Tour guide extraordinaire! |
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| open wiring....above our heads as we sat in a fairly nice restaurant! Think it is up to code????? |
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| Stacey crushing the little dock people waiting for the boat back to Rio Dulce from Livingston |
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| Our first rain of the trip! Check out the lush jungle! |
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| Can you spot the man in the boat along the shore????? |
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| We are crazy chicquitas/gringas/amigas/thirsty chicks! |
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| Preserving the mannequins decency.....not sure why Staceys face is not showing? Maybe her halo is too bright! OH YEAH...and these mannequins had BOOTIES..they werent like our flat buttocked mannequins in North America! |
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| Waiting for our late bus! Yes..this one was 1 hr late! New Amigos we met on the boat from Livingston. German and French! |
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| a lovely photo of the fish in the water in Flores. We were sitting in a restaurant..throwing bread to the fish..and setting the timer on my camera and lowering it in by a strap, to take the photos and freak out the fish! |
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| Classy artwork in our .4 star hotel! We think it is from the Mayan Kama Sutra...and may be the room they usually rent by the hour! But we got it since they are full up, with pageant contestants...for Miss Flores! |
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| Our beautiful hot tub outside our room! ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha |
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| SOMEONES FOOT IS GINORMOUS! GUESS WHICH ONE OF US THIS IS???????????? Welcome to the humid tropics!!! |
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| much nicer area! Glad to be here and not still in the very very dirty Livingston. |
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