After Thanksgiving on the beach, we took a trip to Guatemala City with Jaime and Nora Beníntez - this was their second honeymoon, so we had to go along with them to help them celebrate! Actually, Jaime had a medical conference and we took Nora to Guatemala to spend a couple of days with Jaime, and we went to Antigua together.

This is the view out of our 17th story hotel room.

Mom is always the tour guide.

We never get tired of finding new details in the ruins.

Here, Nora and Mom are going into the ruin of the Cathedral. Up front under the main alta is a cyrpt. There are stairs going down under the altar - kinda spooky.

I went down under the altar - really dark and nasty down there - and waited until Nora was above me looking down the dark hole. At just the right moment I began in a low voice to call out her name. She really freaked out!!

There was a procession that day. The women were carrying the "sled" with the image of Jesus on the top.
After all the excitement, we had to get cooled off at Don Rodrigo and listen to the Marimba band.
Then Mom and Nora had some fun at a furniture store. They finally threw us all out of the store. It was a fun trip - even if we had to go in the car instead of on the bike (we had to take Nora too).