Tikalifornia

We went on an awesome bus ride yesterday first the tourist agency drove us to Guatemala city and dropped us off in a sketchy neighborhood and told us to go inside and not to leave and that the bus would come for us. I already had a good feeling about guatemala city and then we found a dead body. Not really. It was fine. I sat and finished my book about the guy from Brundi that mom gave me and that Dave and Michelle tried to give me for my birthday. It is a great book. We then hopped on the bus and the seats didn´t recline and the air conditioning was blasting. We sat on the bus for an hour before it finally left the station. Lets just say it wasn´t the best night sleep that we had had. This is also day 3 of wearing the same clothes and not showering because of our awesome travel schedule. The bus ride was 8 hours and we arrived in Flores Guatemala at 5 am. We took a taxi and told him that we wanted to go to Tikal today. He said what time and we said right now. So we dropped our bags off at a travel agency and went to Tikal with little sleep, smelling like roses, and no food for 24 hours. Never the less it was awesome because the clouds started to move out as we sat on top of a huge temple that over looked the forest and were able to see the tops of 5 temples poking through the canopy of the trees. For all of you nerds out there Tikal is featured in Star Wars where the Ewoks live. We met a father and son from Guatemala living in Utah during the day. The son just recieved his mission call to Spain and was spending one last trip with his dad. It is a small world. We also finally came back from Tikal and got a room overlooking the lake with a breeze. Finally showered and went to get food at a restaurant that took 1 hour for the food to come out. I also got myself an Guatemalan energy drink and now am living the dream. We are headed to Belize and off to Cancun tomorrow.