Lago Atitlan Part II

Umm... yeah, so I must have clicked on ¨publicar¨ instead of ¨guardar¨ for this entry that I didn´t have time to finish. Sorry. Here´s the completed version:

Sean and I had a great time visiting Lago Atitlan. We stayed at a real cool hotel built into the side of ¨a living rock¨ which I think means rock that´s wet and brings in giant scary bugs. You´d think after my last trip to the lake that I´d be prepared for the creepy crawlies, but nope. I´m not sure if this guy was a spider or a beetle or what, but he was gross and made the other scary spider seem cute. He had eight legs, but he also had this red and black checkerboard pattern on his back and big red claw things in front of his face. I took pictures which I´ll try to upload soon.

Aside from the one scary bug, the trip was great. In San Marcos we hiked a bit, swam a bit, and Sean jumped off the rocks a lot. I got a case of the scaredy pants, and was only able to make myself jump once.

We also visited a nature preserve in Panajachel, the main tourist town on the lake. It was really pretty with lots of vegetation, swinging bridges, and a cool waterfall. The best part, though, was the animals. We were able to watch lots of howler monkeys swinging in the trees as well as pisotes scrambling around on the ground. Pisotes are kind of like racoons, but they have a monkey tail and a cute little pig-like snout. They´re not as cute as manatees or alpacas, but close!