So I know it's been a hike but to be honest with you, I haven't done that much! Well, maybe I have and I'm just spoiled and it has just been another 2 weeks in paradise! ;) I'm currently in caye caulker, enjoying this tiny piece of caribean paradise. I'm hoping to go diving again on Tuesday. I'm super excited yet nervous! The last time was so unbelievable! I'm hoping this company will be as good as the last one!

I really do feel right at home in Latin America. The people here are great and I could get used to wearing shorts in feb!

We spent 3 days in Antigua. It's a really cool little city. It's surpising it's a suburb of Guatemala city! The souviners are plentiful, yet a little too colourful for my liking! But I bought some coffee and few other little things. The people selling things are aggressive and persistant. I saw the perfect shirt to sum it up "I don't want a tuk-tuk ride (small taxi much like a golf cart), I don't want any mre jade and I don't want any f*cking cashews!!" it was perfect! In between our days in Antigua, we hopped over to lake atilan for a night in San Juan for our homestay and then a night in panajanchel. Te homestay was really quite the experience. We were divided into pairs and stayed at our respect homes. The food was really good and it was so cool to watch them prepare it. I'm pretty excited to say that my comprehension of Spanish has gotten so much better unfortunately the 5 year old spoke better than I did. The family was a music family and we watched sing and play the guitar. It's crazy how much guatemalans like their coffee. The two little ones (5 and 9) drank more at 8pm than I do at 7am. Lol we slept on beds made of 2x4's and and a thin wicker matt. My neck is still paying for it!

After Antigua, we headed to rio Dulce. What a neat little spot. Nothing to do but it was rural and on the river. I had beenfeeling exhausted andsick for almost a month so I utilized the down time for some r an r. 15 hrs of Sleep caught me up! Unfortunately, in order to do so, I had to skip out on the carnival. I gambled and lost. They had tons of fun. :( (it's been a bit of a coin toss. Every tour or vent is described as the biggest and best by gap and more Often than not it's disappointing.) none te less, my day relaxing in the pool was just what the doctor ordered.

After rio Dulce we stopped off in flees o see the ruins of Tikal. Wow!!! It's so amazing to see what bare hands and a few logs instead of vehicles built. But, as I was warned about, all the ruins kind of look the same. But still, it was spectacular standing apx 180' in te air, on top of a hand made structure built in 500ad apx. The differnce at these ruins were the shear size of the buildings. Copan, in Honduras, had all the beautiful statues and carvings.

(Im sitting in a "Canadian" sports bar havig a beer and I just stopped typing for a moment and looked out the window and saw white sand and turqoise blue water. LOVE IT!!)

there has been a ton of travel on this trip and I have o admit I don't understand a lt of what gap does but I've seen A LOT!! More than I would have without the tour. Some good some bad! We crosse into Belize yesterday, (another smooth boarder crossing), and stayed the night in San Ignacio. All I have to say is "what a hole"!! There is absolutely nothing to do there but o caving or twice as much as Mexico charges, which is our next destination. I don't get it. So instead of staying a our usual crappy accomodations (we've braved bed bugs, moldy, sheets for pillows, no made service, spider web ridden hotels), a few of us decided to hit paradise early. Why a grey decision. I leave the group behind for a little me time!

Caye caulker is spectacular! A caribean paradise! I'm here for 4 nights! Let's hope try don't take all my money!!