Well this past week has been quite the adventure. We were blessed enough to actually be able to go visit Adam's mom & stepdad in Guatemala! Marlene (Adam's mom) remarried in 2006 after about 28 years of being single. She married Elder Shirley Christensen of the second quarom of the Seventy of the LDS Church. He has been assigned to the Area Presidency down in Guatemala City, Guatemala for the past year and they will be there for at least another year. Cristina's mom was in Utah for the month of July for vacation and willingly watched Ethan for us so that we could go to Guatemala (An energetic 2 year old and a day of flying DO NOT MIX). Adam's aunt Jody went with us. We had a wonderful time and saw so many things. The country is SOOOO beautiful. The people there are some of the hardest working people I have ever met and some of the kindest. Marlene and Shirley's apartment is huge!! The grounds of their apartment are absolutely beautiful. They live upstairs from the French Embassy so they are pretty safe from crime. They are able to leave their balcony/living room doors open all day and night, which is very helpful given the fact that they don't have A/C, just fans, and it is very humid there. 
The next few days are probably going to be blogs about our adventures, so if you don't want to read about it check back in about a week or so. But for those who do, here you go.
DAY 1-GUATEMALA CITY TOUR
We arrived in Guatemala City on Wednesday night, luckily with out any problems. Thursday morning we took a tour of Guatemala City. We went to this look out place where you could look out over the entire city. There are around 30 or so volcanoes in the country of Guatemala. The most famous volcano or the one that is painted the most, Volcan de Agua, is easily seen from just about everywhere you go. ( it is the tall one on the left of the picture)
We then went to the national museum. The museum is filled with artifacts from all the mayan ruins that have so far been excavated. It was pretty interesting.
The picture on the right is of a mayan royalty. The mayan people buried their kings with their most treasured possessions.
This picture depicts the typical clothing of the Mayan people in Guatemala. Unfortunately the Mayan people are not treated very kindly by the Guatemalans.
Here are some pictures of beautiful buildings that you see all over
Guatemala. The picture of the wire tower is what they call their Eiffel Tower.
We then went to the "
Relief Map". This is a map that is made to scale that a man took a ton of time to make to scale of the entire country of Guatemala. It was pretty interesting to see how much work he put into it.
We then went to the central plaza that has the National Palace and a very large Cathedral(I don't remember what it is called). We were able to go into the Cathedral but the National Palace was closed to the public due to some type of presidential meeting. :(
The National Palace
The Cathedral
The cutest little girl feeding the pidgeons
Anyway, that is pretty much our first day in a nutshell. On the way back home we stopped at this very popular fast food place called "
Pollo Campero" and got an ice cream cone. Very delicious!!! Just ask Adam. hee hee
We then went to the national museum. The museum is filled with artifacts from all the mayan ruins that have so far been excavated. It was pretty interesting. 
The picture on the right is of a mayan royalty. The mayan people buried their kings with their most treasured possessions.
Guatemala. The picture of the wire tower is what they call their Eiffel Tower. 
2 comments:
Adam once told me, "no matter how much ice cream I eat, it never fills him up!" I have never seen a photograph capture the essence of that sentence better then the one you have posted.
I probably said that in an ice cream induced state so you would stop making fun of my eating habits.
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