I may have a bridge to sell you if you read Don's blog and believed the fairy tale he told you about today being a rest day. We did sleep in later than the previous to days so that part was restful. However, after we hit the road we spent a solid two hours walking on broken sidewalks and cobble stone streets, dodging cars, tuk-tuk's- and chicken buses and people. We did indeed walk the 7 blocks to the church we will attend tomorrow but my ankle (the right one) still has issues about certain moves and dips in the street. My feet were hurting by the time I managed to manuver Don into finding lunch. He did skip the museum parts today in most of the places we went to because of my ankle. He made a big effort not to over do the walking so that I can walk some more next week. Did I mention at any time that we will be getting more exercise here? Well we are indeed getting more than our fair share of exercise.
Today while we were out we saw lots of tourist running around in the city. Many had tour guides, I think we saw at least 3 different sets at one point. The park was crawling with toursit who were being stalked by native Guatemalan's with stuff to sell. Some of them have a hard time taking NO for an answer. We did not want anything to carry around today but at some point I will buy something for the color and feel of the country.
After our return to the apartment we did just lounge around, watched TV and Don did some more research for the school for next week. I was so tired that I took a short nap and felt better for it. We landed in Antigua and have been running full tilt since. After church tomorrow I hope to get back early but each trip into the city seems to take up 3/4 of the day.
Hope you all have a restful weekend. Slow down. The people here know just how to slow down to the speed of life. I hope we can learn to do that. We try to accomplish to much in any one day,
