Around Antigua

In total Nancy and Allison ended up staying in Guatemala for about three weeks, and the entire time we had soo much fun! Nancy went to the Spanish school we recommended for a week and a half, and as far and I know really enjoyed it. Allison went for a week also. But most of what was fun about it was that there was another American family staying at Santa Rosa with 13-year-old boy, Riley, a 12-year-old boy, Brady, an 8-year-old girl, Grace, and a 2-year-old baby girl they adopted from Guatemala last year. They were also home schooled most of the time, and were down for a month from Tennesse. One we got to know them we spent a lot of time walking around Antigua and getting delicious ice cream and playing in the sprinklers and things. It was so hot during the middle of the day, there was a very limited number of things you could do happily, without feeling like you were melting, but it was a lot of fun.

Ben and Nancy and Allison all left, and shortly after so did the Tennesse folks. Rissa and I had fun playing with Jessica, the care taker's daughter, and another little girl that lived in the apartments, named Sophie. They had a lot of fun playing with our digital cameras, and I enjoyed taking a break from schoolwork to play with them. Then we finally decided that we would be home by April so that mom could be there when Ben started his job in Denver. That meant that we had about two weeks to do everything we wanted to do before leaving the country, not for good, but relatively permanentely. We decided to do a sailing trip down the Rio Dulce, through Lago Ixobel and down to Livingston.