Guatemala City, Antigua

GUATEMALA!!!

We partied it up last night in Guatemala City. We found a place where we could get a bucket of 9 beers for about $10, including gratuity. Mad tight! Needless to say we had quite a few cervezas. This morning we checked out of our hostile and took an hour and a half bus ride to Antigua. It was a pretty intense bus ride, the driver was mad bookin´ it. There were some pretty tight corners... the bus was packed to the brim and there was wild Spanish music bumping. Very amusing.

We found a hotel here that is $8 per night for a private room and private bath...it´s a shitty place but whatever. There is hot water and such. It´s far better than the $45 per night we payed in Guatemala City! Antigua is far prettier than Guatemala City was...it´s up in the mountains and volcanoes, there are lots of tree covered peaks that are half hidden by the fog...very very pretty.

We just went and got fried chicken...I guess Guatemalans are obsessed with it. It was very tasty...now we are in a travel agency finding out about flights from here to Havana. Tomorrow we are going Volcano hiking and then Sunday we are going to a town a couple hours from here for the Chi-Chi market. Then we have to make our way to a town called Flores to visit Tikal, which is Mayan ruins. We´ll probably leave for Havana on the 10th or 11th or so...hopefully...we´re still waiting to
hear about prices and such.

Everybody here is very nice and helpful...very few people speak English so we´ve had a good time using our Spanish. Anton is actually pretty good considering he only started learning a few months ago.

I guess that tickets to Havana flying back into San Salvador would be almost $600 for the two of us...we´re trying to see if roundtrip from Cancun would be cheaper. I think we´ll do it either way though...we both really want to see Cuba. I think i´d have to smoke a cigar while I was there just to say I did...then I´ll proceed to cough up both of my lungs and collapse to the floor. Should be cool.

We were at a Pharmacy earlier buying Ibuprofen and checked the price of Vicodin...7.5 miligrams, 20 pills for about 15 dollars. Are you kidding me? That´s so tight. We didn´t buy any but maybe later...I wish they were that cheap in Mexico! There they are like $5 for one pill. F that.

So far nobody has offered us any cocaine. Maybe when we get further south it will start flowing like water.

Oh mad sweet. Round trip out of Cancun is only $400 for the two of us. Hmm...decisions decisions.

Wooooooooooo!!