A Twister of Fate: Another Day, Another Place, Another Time

This weekend is sadly my last in Guatemala... So, to spend it having as much fun as we possibly could, Olivia, her step-dad, her brother and I all headed back down to Panajachel!
Saturday morning they picked me up at the center, I said some hard good byes to the kids (even though I will see them again Tuesday) Then packed up my stuff and headed down the road. Here are some pictures from the car on the way there -

Here are some pictures of the hotel -

And this is Blackie- the hotel pup

When we got there we hung around the hotel and did some exploring before heading to bed.
The next morning started bright and early (yeah right... at about 9 30...) and Olivia, Francis, and I went down to the beach for a boat ride ad tour, what a nice way to see the town and lake! (we later realized that it was the 100 year anniversary since the Titanic went down... Hmm...)

^^Note the crashed boat on shore

After the boat ride we went up to an apartments/hotel that Olivia's great uncle owns. What a beautiful view of the lake it has, It is surrounded with trees nestled into a mountain. There is also an ancient Mayan sculpture of a snake that was found on the property and is thought to be 1000 years old. It apparently is there to protect the mountain.
here are some pictures of the hotel/apartments and of the snake rock sculpture.

When we returned from the her great uncles we had some AMAZING lunch consisting of Caldo de Rez (basically a beef vegetable soup), homemade tortillas, and awesome papaya juice!
We then did some sun baithing until it was time to go to the circus! yes, you ~~heard~~ err read me right, we went to the circus. We got there at 4 30 when it was suppose to start, but then were told that it a suspended till 6 30 due to lack of audience, so we left and walked around panajachel a bit, braided hair, watched the sunset and ate some choco-bananas to pass the time. When the circus finally got underway there were amazing trapeze artists, wonderful jugglers and some down right funny clowns. It was all in Spanish but I enjoyed it thoroughly anyways! I also managed to get a few pictures before being reprimanded for taking pictures!