Brent and his boss. My favorite photograph of the ones taken here. Photographed in Guatemala City, Guatemala, at the archaeology center that Brent works for. Click and then select "All Sizes" to see the large version (best).

* My count seems to have gone off early on.

Friday was a non-existent serpentarium, a hotel that comes with its own tourist attractions, another jade factory, some shopping, some more ruins, and the groom's dinner.

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Betcha thought I was done with the long Antigua updates, didn't you?

You were wrong.

Phil was feeling better by Thursday, so we went to an entirely destroyed convent, a textile museum, a jade factory, and a saint's tomb.

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Today is Wednesday, day 6 of vacation, day 4 of Antigua, another 4 to go.

Photo count: 779 (the photo speed is slowing down now that a) Phil is illin', and b) I've already taken pictures of most of the common sites)

Aii. So much to write up. The documenting may be getting a bit wearisome, but it is important for me to be able to keep a record, something I can look back at later, to remember.

Phil is feeling quite poor, but he's determined to still go and see sites. Day trips are pretty much out of the question, so no volcano trip or coffee plantation tour until he's feeling better or it's the last couple of days we're here, in which case I may go without him. He's been sick for about two days now, and last night he finally caved and started taking Cipro. So far it hasn't helped much. In the last two days, he's eaten some packaged biscuits, plain white rice, and a banana. He's trying to be a trouper, and I feel really bad for him, while being very grateful for my continued good health (knock on wood).

Also, I have told him about the Timberwolves trade, on the theory that his bowels would distract him from this pain. It seems to have worked!

We are definitely at the mid-point in the vacation - we've needed to take our laundry to be done, we're missing our house and our cats, and we're a bit overloaded. Well, that's the nature of vacation, isn't it? Going to an exotic and interesting place, experiencing a bunch of new, fun, interesting things, and being reminded how much you like home!

On Monday, we took a day trip to Lake Atitlan, a vast lake formed in the caldera of a volcano, with Brent's family.

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Day 5 of vacation, day 3 of Antigua, another 5 to go.

Current photograph count: 729

It will probably take me months to go through all the photographs I've taken here. Well, that's the downside of getting a digital camera, I suppose.

Sunday, we got ourselves oriented in Antigua, went to the ruined cathedral that in front of the main market square, and visited an abandoned cloister.

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Photo count: 334

Count does not include "bad" photos that have already been deleted.

Then we saw Brent´s workplace and went to Antigua.

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