Today we finished our first house!! The family were really pleased and cooked a big meal as a celebration. We had no work to do after lunch and so Ian chased the kids around as usual. The only problem was that 2 hours later we were still waiting and Ian couldn't hack it anymore so was reduced to locking himself in the house whilst the kids banged on the door and the window until he came out. After this he decided that hide and seek might be better but opted for m...

Today was exhausting!! First of all we went to Hotel Santo Domingo which is a 5* hotel built around ruins. Within the hotel grounds they have tried to give you an idea of the layout and life in the monastery in the 1500s. You can go into the crypts and see skeletons of some of the inhabitants. There are also 5 museums (Candles and pottery workshops too). We walked around here for about 2 hrs then went for lunch at a tiny little place we stumbled across, which loo...

We have just finished our first week of house building and are all pretty tired and glad that it is the weekend! It has been really hard work, so much so I am already visibly stronger (not hard I know but its a little improvement!). We have been shifting huge piles of sand and cement, lots of very heavy buckets of concrete, re-shaping the bricks in various ways then moving millions of them, laying bricks and getting our hands covered in cement, realising that we ...

Ok, where was I... Antigua is a really beautiful place and I can fully understand why anyone we have met who has come here, has not wanted to leave! The best way of describing it is as the Edinburgh of Guatemala. We went for a little explore on the 3rd when we arrived and there was people playing marimbas in the street, pony rides round the main square, woman in traditional dress selling traditional artefacts, tuk tuks driving crazily everywhere. It is a city wi...

We were back at San Jose airport today for our flight to Guatemala. Thankfully it was a painfree experience unlike Miami! Not only was it pain free but we made a mistake that was to make it a very comfortable flight! It wasn´t until we got to security when I realised that our boarding passes were in a little folder marked "Executive class", our boarding passes had "Business" written on them and we were sitting in row 3! We were very confused...