A wet but fun day!

We drove to Panajachel from Antigua yesterday and enjoyed amazing scenery all along the way. The bus ride itself was quite an experience!

After settling in to our charming hotel, most of us took a short walk down to Lake Atilan. Though the weather was not the best (some thunder and lightning in the distance) and visibility was quite limited, we were still able to get a sense of the size of the lake and had a delicious meal while being treated to watching the owner's husband give one of his students a salsa lesson. They were fantastic! We've even been invited to have group salsa lessons from him on our last night in Pana. Hmmmm...that would make some pretty fun video. I think I'll be BEHIND the camera on that one!

As we were leaving, it started to pour and we had to call for tuk-tuks to take us all back to our hotel. (Tuk tuks are something akin to golf carts...so imagine riding with four people in a golf cart on a cobblestone main street in the rain and you have a picture of our transportation home. Great fun!)

Today we will spend most the morning with Mayan Traditions and learn about fair trade in great deal. Then this afternoon we will join up with another NGO--Mayan Families--to distribute the ten mircro-credit loans The Unity Center has funded. (We'll also start having the 50+ t-shirts we brought with us signed.)

More later,

Wendy