Monday, July 9, 2012

Going back to Guate

Up early this am to catch our flight back to Guatemala City. Left Hotel Jungle Lodge with heavy hearts. Had a wonderful last day/evening in Tikal.
After our awesome sunrise tour we had a great breakfast at the hotel. Alden ordered her Guatemalan favorite, fried plantains and black beans and Tilghman his new fav scrambled eggs (way to go out on a limb there, little buddy).
Rested for a bit while the children played in the pool. Walked down to the little tienda where the guides hang out and found Chino who had promised to take the kids tarantula hunting. After a few failed attempts we were finally able to coax a big girl out of her hole. Sully actually let her crawl up his arm while I shivered and shook a good 20 feet away.
Sully walked back into the park to get some video. The place is just so unbelievably huge pictures don't do it justice.
The kids and I stayed back at the entrance and took a little hike around to see some wildlife. We were not disappointed. We saw a bunch of wild turkeys, two cotamundis, a paca (which is like a big guinea pig with long legs), some weird chicken like birds with long orange legs and red eyes (which we have yet to identify), a crocodile and a bunch of ever present spider monkeys.
Watched another futsol match between Guatemala and Costa Rica during dinner, Guate lost 3-2 :(
After dinner both kids practically fell asleep at the table - we had, after all, been up since 3:30 am. We'll get some pics, etc. Up soon.

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