Climbing the Cerro de la Cruz (again)
This morning, Stacey and I got up early and left the house around 5:40 for a walk/jog up to the Cerro de la Cruz (Hill of the Cross) with Andrea, one of our housemates. We climbed it with a group from our school on our first afternoon in Antigua (almost six weeks ago - [...]
Only one day left…
We’re down to the last couple days now… Or less, really. The shuttle is picking us up at 6:00 a.m. on Saturday to get us to Guatemala City for our 9:50 flight. We’ll land in Miami at 2:20 p.m. and take off again at 4:00, landing in Chicago at 6:15, where my [...]
Cine Lounge
Last Thursday night we went to a place in Antigua called Cine Lounge. It’s an interesting theater with tables and chairs that serves food and drinks. Admission is free, but of course you’re expected to buy something. So we bought two Cokes and enjoyed watching the Bucket List for about $4.50. [...]
Eating at Da Vinci with Bree and David
Bree just graduated today (Friday)… So Wednesday night we went out to eat with her and David at a restaurant David’s been wanting to eat at since they got here: Da Vinci. It’s a nice place, with lots of art and stuff that people more cultured than me can probably appreciate more. It’s [...]
The ugly and the beautiful
Sometimes you see something beautiful… and sometimes you see something ugly.
Yesterday, we saw this dog having dinner in the street. Pretty ugly.
This morning, during our 10:00-10:30 break at school, we walked down to the Parque Central to snap pics of the volcanoes that surround Antigua. They were about as [...]
