Big Event ??

We are still in Guatemala and here Easter is the locals vacation time. The river is full of personal water craft and big power boats that belong to rich Guatemalans. Not all people in Central America are poor. Some are very rich. On Sunday we were told to go see the Wolf Dance up town in Fronteras. We went early because in Central America time is measured in when people get there. They will just start then. When the parade came by Pam and I were amazed at the costumes. Amazed at how people could live in them with it being this hot. 92 degree at 8 o’clock. I still don’t know what the costumes were meant to be. Every one wore face mast but the face mast looked like white people. They went inside a little auditorium under the bridge. I don’t know how you could get the music any louder. On stage they had sexy dancing girls that never stopped jiggling for a whole hour.

I still don’t know what we saw but here is just a few pictures we made. This was so spectacular we will post more pictures later.

The person up front is in a costumeTOO LOAD

Parade ?

We went in town yesterday and they had a parade. I don’t know what the parade was for but we liked it. Some high lights.

Crowd gathering

The parade goes on while the traffic is going on by in the other lane.

One of the Greens of parade resting at local store after it was over.

Life back to normal on the busy streets of Fronteras here in Guatemala.

Guatemalan Holiday

We are very busy working on the boat. It’s hot this time of year here in Guatemala. It’s here Easter and the Guatemalan people make this there vacation time. Streets are packed. The water is full of personal water craft. The rich Guatemalans are out in their million dollars boats. Tour boats are full with people coming by our boat pointing and making pictures and to all this the locals are out in there dug out canoes. We will be staying at the dock for the next two weeks.

Here is what the locals build here from a boat that was built here years ago by a Japanese boat builder to cross the surf. Read this slowly “There is no surf here.” They like the way it looks but loaded or not you can not see what is in front of you. They put a kid up there for a look out sometimes. With all the other water traffic you have these boats coming at you at full speed and can’t see you. At the dock where we tie up in town some times a kid stared up a boat like the one shown here in gear and rammed two boats before it chocked down then did it again. The 3^rd time I was screaming as he did it again but this time he was out of control coming at little Dumpling our dink just touching it as he hit the dock again wide open. A man ran over and took the motor out of gear stared it the right way and they simply left. Damage to the other boats didn’t happen if you can just leave the way they see it here. Another thing some one has taken the neutral starting safety switch that only allows you to start the motor out of gear off. It gets a lot more dangerous after dark in the water here. All vessels be it boat, plane or space ship have colored light on the side so you can identified the way the vessel is going. We had one of these boat with the really high bow coming at us already this year with lights “but on the wrong side”. You can not see any one in the boat because it is built so wrong and if the lights were right it is coming at you up side down. We love it here but sometimes you need to just stay home.

We will be walking to town until this slows down. The streets are full of people in town but here comes an old late 1960s camper with two white people looking like they are having the time of there life being here.

People setting anywhere there is shade.

Eggs being delivered and never refrigerated.

Saturday Morning

Now that we are safely back home on our boat we went to town Saturday morning. The nick name here for the town is Fronteras. It sets on the river here in Guatemala and it is a frontier town. We enjoy going to town on Saturday morning and watch the town come alive.

The indigenous people come in the back of pickup trucks they build racks to haul cows in. Sometimes there is no more standing room left. The people that come in usually stay till the afternoon. We have helped with a charity here putting lights in far away schools and clinics so we know sometimes it may take many long hours to get back to there village standing in the back of one of the old trucks. Sometimes crossing rivers where there in no bridge. Remember we have been to some of these places. The charity we worked for is called Pass It On.

Here a women has brought her chickens to town to sell as the indigenous people watch and enjoy being in town.

You can see it on the little girl’s face.

Here a women walks carrying her baby in just a blanket on her back and if you think she is small you should see the baby.

If you go to town and want to buy a goat. No problem

Things In Guatemala

Were back home for sure now. Back on our boat. Our boat is always home and our boat is for now in the Rio Dulce river in Guatemala.

A beautiful day looking from the bridge at the little frontier town near the river.

A clothing store Guatemala style.

Buying groceries off the street

Here as most small town down here have no sidewalks

We just love this little woman she is a street vendor with a vegetable stand set up on a card table. Some times here I mistake some of these little women for a 8 years old until they turn around. Some times you see some of these little women riding motor bikes in high heel shoes with their feet just touching the ground.