Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Day 2

We took a ferry across Lake Atitlan today to see some of the surrounding villages. We couldn't resist the "titanic picture"

We were loaded into the back of some pickup trucks. To go from San Lucas to San Juan.

In San Juan we were transferred into tuk tuks. These vehicles were so fun!


We went to a coffee plantation to learn how coffee is made. These are the different stages of the coffee bean.


We went to a public school. The children loved us. They wanted to see more "whiteys"!




Then we were able to see how they make their own yarn from a cotton tree. How they then use different plants to dye the cotton.



These cute ladies sold Chad a shirt as we were walking back to the ferry.





From there Chad and I went to the Nature Preserve. We went zip lining. The first thing we saw were some spider monkeys.

All ready to go!!




Go Chad. When the guy at the end would signal we would have to reach behind us with our gloved hand and push down on the cable to slow ourselves down. If we didn't slow ourselves we were then yanked to a stop by a rope so we wouldn't slam into a rock wall. It was fun but a little scary at first while testing out the stopping methods!








1 comment:

Sasha said...

I agree-zip lining is SO much fun! We did it on our trip to Hawaii and had a blast.