June 22, 2007- That is a long way down!

We woke up early and had our first typical Guatemalan breakfast which consisted of fried plantains, eggs, cheese and coffee. It was wonderful. Were only had a few vendors come try to sell us goods during breakfast. One of which was a man selling nuts whom we had seen the night before. We tried to explain that Josh would die if we gave him any so we offered him our juice as a consolation prize. He was happy to accept then headed on his way thanking us for the juice. At ten we met up with a smaller faction of our group and walked over to the nature preserve and the butterfly jail. We walked over a number of hanging bridges. They looked pretty safe but we strictly adhered to the 6 persons only sign. We also decided to take advantage of the zip line canopy tour they offered. It was roughly $25 for both of us to go and the man assured us that everything was CMI certified in both the US and Canada and was completely safe. It was the first time I had seen "made in the USA" on the trip. Josh was undecided at first but was so happy he went in the end. We went down a series of 6 zip lines. The longest zip line was 350 meters and took about 45 seconds. That gives you plenty of time to consider the fact that you are pretty height up but then still have time to look around and enjoy the views. They say the first one is the scariest and you get you use to it during the end. I wasn´t so sure but in the end they were correct. The last few were the fastest and were very fun.

After our morning of zipping down the mountain we met up with Whitney and Jason who had just arrived in town. We walked down to the water with Brandy, Matt, Misty and Cezar for a late lunch. As soon as we were ready to go the rain started so we ordered another bucket of beer and hoped it would stop. The rain did stop but not for long. About and hour after we went back to the hotel the rain started up again but this time it didn´t stop. It rained and rained. We watched the street in front of our hotel turn into a river. Most of our group was at the Church for the rehearsal or getting ready for the rehearsal dinner. We decided that we were going to stay close to the hotel with Whitney and Jason. We played cards and caught up. We decided we made the correct decision when we found out at ten that the dinner hadn´t started yet and the street was basically a true river at that point.