Xela and our 5th month of travelling

Hi All.

It has been a while since our last blog, and we have a

lot to tell... We spent a week in Xela, studying spanish again and living with a family. The spanish was fantastic compared to Argentina; the school was very inviting and the teachers were there to do what you wanted.. A long way from Huliana´s lessons. We stayed with an elderly couple, Liddia and Francesco, who were very hosptiable but would ¨prefer it if we kept to ourselves¨. We had to play cards in our room to conserve energy (1 light bulb in our room compared to 4 in the kitchen). We figured they must have alot of gringos come and go and ¨its best not to get too attached¨. On the upside Liddia was the latin Martha Stuart, doing things to beans and rice the rest of you can only dream about. In all seriousness it was great to have home cooked, healthy meals and to live in a home for a change.

Another great thing about the school is we went on little trips about Xela everyday. These photos are of us heading to a natural hot spring in the mountains behind Xela. It was really beautiful up there. We past all the farms on the way and watched all the harvesting and planting etc, of all types of different veggies. you also pass the women washing in the rivers and its really quite cool. P.S do you like Ebony´s Roy Orbson glasses.

To celebrate our fifth month on the go, we went to Xocomil Parque Aquatico (after much persuasion by Richo), which is the biggest water park in the Central Americas!!! Pretty impressive place!!! For one of the slides we did not look at the structure beforehand only to get a total shock when we were spat out of the tube into a giant sink!!! only to have to go down the sink HOLE!!! freaking out we went anticlockwise 5 times around the sink trying not to fall backwards down the hole!!!! real good time.