Dancing Queens? Really not...

Hi again everybody!

So... let's see where we left off... ah yes! The beach. Let us reiterate - it was amazing.

Unfortunately, we had to leave Roatan on Sunday to mov on to other things. We got on a mutlitude of smelly (and we do mean smelly - combo B.O., dirty fried chicken from the street, and other nondescript but equally revolting things) buses before arriving in Copan Ruinas, where we stayed for a few days. As the name quite clearly states, Copan is famous for its ruins. They were built by the Mayans in the year 600 (maybe... we could be pullng that number out of our asses). The ruins were really cool, lots of pyramidy-looking things and random statues for worshipping. As you can probably tell, we did not hire a guide (El Cheapo style), so we're not entirely certain of all the facts, but we got some pretty sweet photos, so we're not bothered! We should also mention that it was about 40 degrees in the blazing sun, so after about 2 hours walking up and down giant stone steps at the ruins' site, we had to retreat to our room, where we promptly threw ourselves in front of the fan in an attempt to blow dry our sweaty selves/bras. It was lovely.

That same day, we went on a horseback riding adventure through the city and up in the surrounding mountains. We only understood about 20% of what our guide was saying to us (il parlait come s'il avait une patate dans la bouche), but we visited some weird rocks shaped like frogs which were supposedly an ex-Mayan hospital... something like that.

The next day we hopped on a shuttle to Antigua (in Guatemala, not the country in the Antilles). This is a really pretty little city with cobble-stone streets, colourful buildings and volcanoes in the background. We spent most of our first day exploring the city and shopping around in the crafts market. Our bargaining strategy is for Steph to do the talking in Spanish, while Johanne plays (or not so much) at not understanding anything till Steph translates. Then Johanne says it's too expensive, Steph says so the the vendor, and we walk away, until they chase after us. It's working pretty well, if we do say so ourselves. We also wanted to go rafting (this is the second time we've tried), but it appears rafting is just not in the cards for us. It isn't the season apparently, and we would have no rapids to speak of. Oh well!

This morning, we had the worst breakfast of all time, then headed down the street for a salsa dancing lesson. We both really sucked, but our instructors were really nice and kept trying to encourage us by saying "Muy Sexy!" and "Wow". Yeah right. We danced for an hour, no one stepped on anyone else's feet, then we went back to the market to visit the stalls we never got around to yesterday.

This afternoon, we decided to attend to our dirty (literally BLACK) feet. We went to the spa and had massages and pedicures. Not exactly the adventure we were looking for in white water rafting, but a nice way to spend an afternoon anyway!

Tomorrow, we're taking yet another bus to Panajachel, on the shore of LAgo de Atitlan. There, we will be paragliding, kayaking, and attempting to deepen our tans one last time before coming home!!!

See you in a week (already!)

Steph and Jo