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12 October 2003

 
More Guatemala News from Tiff

Well, the boat trip went fine. This is a large and
unbelievably beautiful lake that was formed in the
collapsed cone of a volcanoe. The water is the most
beautiful deep blue. We rode the local ferry which
was really nice because it was slow so we could sit
outside and enjoy the wonderful view without being
blown apart. The one difference we saw though was
that the much more expensive tourist boats had life
preservers. Unlike Peru though, the water is much
warmer. The view is soooooo Central America. The
lake is totally surrounded by perfectly cone shaped
volcanoes that reach up into the clouds. It is like
no other place I've ever visited.
We went to a market at the town across the lake.
There were all kinds of election speeches and
fireworks going on. We bought the most beautiful
thing for Brad's mom. We had to have it altered a bit
by the girl who made it. She didn't still have the
correct yarn and thread on hand to fix it. Brad went
to another section of the market and left me to wait
for his mom's present because I could tell her in
Spanish what we wanted. When she realized she needed
to go buy more thread she left me in charge of the
stand. It was really funny. The grown-ups were too
polite to stare but the kids were obviously fascinated
by the gringo lady watching the stand. Too bad, I
sold nothing. We got wonderful pictures of beautiful
girls working on the present. The pictures are my
reward for hanging out and tending the store till the
present was done. The textiles here are so gorgeous
but this one item was totally hand made. Tomorrow we
will probably take the boat to another town as we
really like it here and we will make our last stop
Antigua which is a world heritage sight with an active
volcanoe spouting lava every day. It is constantly
active at some level. It is at code orange and they
stopped tourist from going up without a guide as too
many were hit by flying lava. We are not going
up--the chicken buses are adventure enough.

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