19 Mosquito

That is my newly adopted Mayan Name. It was going to be 18 Mosquito (so I could be a close relative to 18 Rabbit), but then I got bit again. The name stems from all of the fabulous mosquito bites I've gotten since we arrived in the glorious tropics. I must be delicious. Good thing we pop malaria pills weekly.

Ok, let's talk about sounds. First, I hear this adorable chirping on the bus. Where is that coming from? Oh, it's the old lady over there holding a trashbag full of baby chicks. That was confirmed when she grabbed one out and then shoved it back in - must have been an ill behaved chick. On the same lines, I woke up to chirping at our Rio Dulce hostel and thought - annoying but sweet of the little birdies to wake me up each morning - even if they sound alarmingly close. I just hoped they didn't poop on me. Since I wasn't wearing glasses until the last day I didn't realize they were actually bats. Everywhere. Very close to me. Jeff said he knew and didn't want to say anything because he feared my reaction. I was calm, I swear (but only because we were leaving that day.

Strangest yet, we woke up at Finca Ixobel in our tree house like room to a crunching/munching noise. When we went out to see what it was I found a horse under our room. It's a tall structure so he was just munching away at the grass at the bottom of our staircase. It was all well and good until I was walking back from the restroom and gave the horse a little finger wave hello and he took that as a signal to run at me. I was half asleep and had visions of being bitten and stampeded so I ran equally fast and beat him to the staircase which I lumbered up as fast as my legs would take me. Take THAT, horse.

Ok, now I want sympathy. While lying in bed I saw a strange object on our mosquito netting just above me. Weird, so I got out and looked closer - it was the biggest freaking spider I have ever seen live! There's a picture on photobucket - look at it - disgusting! Ugh. No one thought it was as gross as I did, but that just means they are all crazy. RIght?

We liked Finca Ixobel and got to go on a fun horseride. It only rained a bit during the ride and otherwise was peaceful. If not for being really sore in spots, I would have liked it a tad more. The food there was awesome and we met some great people from Norway, England and Israel and hung our with them for a few days.

We are now in the lovely little island type thing of Flores, Guatemala. It's a tiny peninsula jutting out into the lake Peten Itza - I think. Very cute, pretty darn hot, and only an hour and a half from Tikal. YES! I'm pumped about that - which we'll go to tomorrow and Monday. For now, we are celebrating Valentines Day by Jeff taking me to a lovely lunch at Burger King (BOOBOO JANG!). Very romantic.