Current mood:	satisfied
Current music:	Free Fallin' - Tom Petty
Entry tags:	life, travel

Adios Antigua, Goodbye Guatemala
My 2nd week in Antigua was much calmer than the 1st. I think Antigua takes about a week to explore and after that people start behaving more like temporary residents than tourists. The 2nd week of Spanish was definitely useful though. On my last day of class I took my instructor out for horchata and lunch at La Fonda, after which we watched a marching band parade around the city.

I've never flown into the US from a country other than Canada before so I hadn't realized that a 55 minute layover at Houston would be cutting things dangerously close. Despite managing to use the US residents line at Immigration - it's about 5 times faster than the one for visitors - and having no problems anywhere else, I would have missed my flight to SFO if it hadn't been delayed by half an hour.

Anyway, I'm happy to have clean drinking water on tap again and be free from mosquitoes and 2nd-hand smoke. I've posted all the photos from my camera online.