Packing Up and Gettin' Out of Town

We are packing up and getting ready to leave tomorrow. Our flight is at 2pm and we arrive in Guatemala City at 10pm after a short layover in Mexico City (AKA Swine Flu Capital). Jasmine is 1/2 way through her pre-trip shave and is staying with Lissy, as are Rose's hermit crabs. Rose and I are getting excited to go. We've got our shots and have already started the malaria pills. I still have a list of to-do's left "to do" because I am such a last minute person. On the right are some maps of Guatemala and Honduras as well as links to some of the wesites of the places we are staying. We hope we'll have a great time--we thought this would be a good way for you to see our trip when you want to and for Grandma and Grandpa to stare at until we get back (they worry about us). We generally stay on the "tourist trail" where we see lots of college kids with backpacks from all over the world. I can't believe our other trip was 4 years ago. We plan to start at the pyramids in Tikal, revisit Finca Ixobel, go to Rio Dulce, then go down to Honduras and visit the ruins at Copan and spend a week snorkeling/being tourists on Roatan Island. After finishing there, we are headed back to stay with the same family in Guatemala (Casa Rosario) and go to language school for a week--to finish up we are going to volunteer with a Sea Turtle Rescue in Monterrico, Guatemala for a week. Rose is very interested in animals and it should be pretty hands-on helping. Then we will head to the airport and return on August 4.