The beach, but no turtles.

I just returned from a fabulous weekend on the beach. It was so hot, but the ocean and pool were perfect. We stayed at the only hotel on the beach, it was very minimal but cheap and all we wanted. To get to the beach we had to take a boat to cross a river, it was pretty crazy because we arrived in the dark, but it was beautiful. Once we arrived at the hotel we had a meal and then went on a walk looking for a turtle nest and eggs, but nothing was found. This is not unsual, it is actually rare to come across one. There is a tutle hatchery on this beach and there are 45 nests there, so we were really hoping to be able to release some baby turtles, but none hatched while we were there, so we didn't see any turtles the whole weekend. We did get to see a turtle egg, which is much like a ping-pong ball, just kinda soft and mushy. It was neat.
The beach is very remote so there were very few people of the beach and lots of animals, but that made for a cheap and peaceful weekend.We spent most of our time swimming in the ocean, pool or playing cards, lots of card playing!! It was a great girls weekend away.

Back in Xela the guys didn't do much. They did go to the pool just down the mountain saturday for a bit and other than that played some video games and just relaxed.
We do have some bad news from this weekend. Five of the females teachers live in a house together and while we were gone the house was broken into. A computer, camera, gradebook and school keys were taken. When one of the girls got home she heard something and went to another room and that is when they left. We are just so thankful they left then and didn't confront her. Their landlord is fixing the window that they got in through and the cops were there taking fingerprints, not that they will do anything, but at least they showed up. So because school keys were taken we will be getting a few new locks and keys at school and hopefully we will not have this problem again.
These facts were in a recent Xela magazine and they say alot of about Guatemala.
1. Guatemalan police are ranked 127 out of 131 world wide for trustworthiness.
2. 100,000 babies will be born to women under the age of 20 this year.
This is the country we love and call home:)
And now the best for last: WE ARE COMING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!! We found cheap tickets (relativily speaking)a few nights ago and we couldn't pass them up. Thanks to our parents and other family for helping making this possible!!!
There is now an independence and beach album on shutterfly, so check those out.
That is all for now, another busy week ahead of us.