Beth is dying her hair blonde

!Hola!

So yesterday we arrived in Guatemala City, returning from Flores and our time in the jungle. From Guate we wanted to head to the highlands region around Lake Atitlan. So we grabbed a minibus from Guate to Panajachel, on the lake. It is sort of similar to Lake Tahoe, however this lake is surrounded by volcanos. We arrived around one and found a place to stay for 7 bucks a night. You can´t beat that. Anyway, we then proceeded to familiarize ourselves with the town by walking down the two main streets. Basically the city center is a pretty happening place with bars, discos and shops galor.


Here you can find women and children dressed in traditional grab, selling their wares, consisting of hand-made scarves, bracelets and other fine wares. We stopped to grab something to eat and then walked around the mercado de artisians, basically you can find all kinds of fun crafts here, but you have to bargain down your price.

As we were sitting at a cafe drinking some cafe con leche (coffee with milk), all these kids wearing masks went running by, it was curious, but we didn´t follow them. As we continued down the street, we happened upon a play, or something, two guys, also dressed in masks, and all the kids sitting on the side walk. We stayed and watched wondering what and why this was happening in the middle of the day. Well we continued on our way back to our hostal to grab a beer and change for the evening of partying (in honor of me potentially having a job)!

So we went out bar hopping, our first stop was Circus Bar, it was pretty dead there so we headed to the next stop, Pana Rock. This place was pretty cool, they had 2 for 1, so basically you could get drinks for two drinks for 3.50, it was great! We stayed there, listening to the live music and eating some cheap food. We stayed and then decided we should go back closer to our hostel and ended back at Circus Bar, where they also had live music, consisting of Flamanco music. It was great, well here the bartender was really leering at me and lots of locals where coming up and talking to me and really not to Beth (hence the blonde hair thing). Well we stayed here until we ended up taking shots of Sambuca and decided we needed to pass out. So off it was back to Villa Lupita´s, where we came upon locked gates. We were´kind of worried as to how the hell we were getting in, but Beth, who was not as drunk, found the door bell and Lupita let us in. That was a close one! So we made it back to stumble into bed and pass out.