Hey all,

On June 21, the Carter Clan is taking off to spend three weeks in beautiful Guatemala. We will be living with a Mayan family for two weeks during a Spanish immersion program.  We have been meeting with a Colombian friend and using Rosetta Stone to improve our Spanish before heading out.

We will spend the first couple of days in Antigua, the former capital of Guatemala, and Unesco World Heritage site.  Then, we head over to Lago Atitlan (background pic), to a town called Panajachel. The lake is supposed to be really pretty. It's a volcanic crater that filled up with water and is surrounded by 3 volcanoes, some of which we hope to climb. After two weeks at the language school we will head up to Tikal, the ruins of an ancient Mayan city. Tikal looks like something out of an Indiana Jones movie, but supposedly they used it as a location for part of Return of the Jedi. May the force be with us.

We hope to post at internet cafes as we go along, so stay tuned...