Guatemala con los Padres 9/15/11

After having breakfast at the hotel, we headed out to climb El Baul, the mountain I usually run every Friday. It was nice to casually walk up the mountain. The weather was absolutely beautiful, and we took a good 3 hours to walk it. After, we walked to El Terminal, another market that’s a little bit farther from my house. This is also where all the chicken buses hang out.

After 5 hours of straight walking, we headed to El Cuartito, a café that I go to often because they have good food and strong internet. We had nachos and other lunch items, and then headed back to the hotel to relax for a while.

After a little siesta, we went to Baviera, another café that I frequently visit. They have really good coffee and pastries, but not such great internet. We spent a good amount of time there, and then went back to the hotel for more siesta-ing (and for a lack of better things to do, because unless you are living and going to school, Xela doesn’t have all that much for tourists).

Later that evening, as we were heading out for dinner, I got a call from my Guatemama. We went to my house, and my real parents got to meet my Guatemala parents! It went really well, but I forgot to take a picture and I am super bummed because a picture with all 4 of my parents would have been awesome!

We hung out at the house for about 20 minutes, and afterwards headed to Cardinali, an Italian restaurant that I had heard was great but had never been to. People were correct…. it was delicious! I had a pasta dish with all different types of seafood. It was a little pricey, but I think it was good enough that I’ll save some money to go back there again before I leave Xela.


As usual, after dinner we headed back to the hotel and went to bed.