Update

good day! but aren´t they all?!

we are in san pedro. our luxury 7 dollar a night room looks right out over lake atilan. there is a sauna and our shower is pipin´hot (thankfully as it didn´t get any warmer! oh, and i did find a place to buy mittens, but merely out of principle I passed them up...only to regret it every evening since!)

by the way...i lied on the last entry...there were two bad things about antigua. in addition to the frostbite is the cobble roads. nice to look at, but geez - don´t get in a rickety little tuk tuk on those stone roads without a solid sports bra.

and thanks for the wishes - it was a great day! we had lots of fun - had breakfast in a garden, bartered with the quilt man, ate samosas and delicious curry, had an extra afternoon coffee, drank wine in the hammock overlooking the lake, and sean gave me a magic flute! if i was any more relaxed I would have fallen into a coma!

so older yes...wiser no. but then, at 13 I knew EVERYTHING, so how does one ever get wiser then that? every day that has gone by since i´ve learned that i know less and less. at this rate 10 more years and i´ll know nothing!

back to the interesting stuff - our last day in Antigua, the french guy asked us if we´d like to buy his crepe shack. I looked at sean...sean said how much?...after a while it was time for us to catch our bus (thankfully or I´d probably be folding crepes right now...and what do i know about crepes? I´m not french. ...But i do have some ukrainian blood kicking around in me - so i spent the 2 hour ride wondering how hard would it be to modify a crepe stand into a perogy stand...)

but then we arrived and I forgot all thoughts -this town - san pedro - is something else. it´s one of those places where you commonly hear the phrase ¨where else in the world?!¨ which coincedentally is my favorite phrase to overhear. it is the most laid back place I´ve ever been. for example, yesterday we stopped for a coffee and sat on the balcony of this cute little restuarant, when along comes this hippie and takes the table next to us. within 5 minutes he had ordered, told us about the trecherous 2 day hike he´d JUST finished, and he had his shoes and socks off to show us his soiled stinky feet. Then his pizza came and he ate it, sharing the crusts with a couple stray puppies who obviously didn´t mind his smelly feet, while his socks were laid over the edge of the reastauant´s balcony to dry, all the while telling us of the 2 years he spent in asia. (yes, he did wash his hands - this wasn´t meant to disgust you, just to show a glimpse at how laid back this place is. it´s like everyone here is at a cabin at the lake - every eating establishment is just like you grabbed a burger and are sitting on your own balcony after a hard day of waterskiing or hiking or resting.)

And this lake...some poet said that it was the ´most beautiful lake in the world´ Really. Doubtful dude. more beautiful then the lakes in northern saskatchewan? or lake louise and the like? Or more beautiful then Fishing Lake? that´s a bold statement sir. i doubted he´d even seen Fishing Lake. Anyhow, we finally arrived and saw Lake Atilan for ourselves. It was breathtaking...the lake is surrounded by maya villages and volcanos and, I´ll have to hand it to him, definitely more beautiful then Fishing Lake!

well, I´ve exerted enough energy for one day - I´ve got a hammock to lay in.