Before We Go . . .

Day 7 Monday - June 14th, 2010

We visit Lake Atitlan (2nd biggest tourist spot behind the ruins) with the exception of the deathly-ill Lori (Frommer's exact diagnosis) and "Dr. J" himself. The rest of us head out into the lake and stop by a few of the local villages. The sight of the two (active) volcanoes is gorgeous.

One of these happened to have a celebration. Said celebration was a ritual designed to cure a few people of alcoholism. The method? The alcoholics drank themselves stupid in front of statues (idols) in the hopes that the saint for which the statue represented would cure them.

Not much of anything eventful occurred outside of John getting a brain freeze from a sunday and Loncar and Kelly taking turns at piloting the boat back to our shore of origin.

Steak dinner at the Leiva house (I have now consumed more steak outside of the US than in - there's probably something wrong with that).

Next Day, On the plane ride back:

Loncar's poncho-sun-glasses look resembles a South American uni-bomber.

And now, we are planning ahead to next year's trip.