Thread: Heading to Guatemala

Great, sitting here with a couple of paragraphs typed and somehow pressed the wrong keys and lost all information typed.

Anyways, before the flight information, I am in Antigua now and its 4:45am and some canons and church bells just went off. Glad I was already up.

Back to my flight story. So, after missing the 8:20pm flight from SLC to LAX because there was no way I could make it-it had 24 people on the list on the screen at the gate(I would be way at the bottom as I am just above buddy passes) and showing 3 seats I went over to the United gate to try a flight at 8:55pm that was oversold by 2 but I was #1 on the standby list. Somewhere around 8:20 I find out the flight was running an hour late. Great, not it will leave at the same time as the 9:55pm Delta flight. So go and look at the numbers again only to find out that I would have made the 8:20 flight and it left with 11 seats.

Now I need to decide on a 50 seater and being now #2 on the list or a 150 seater and being at the bottom of 20 or so. Due to the United flight being late and should have left by now, I talked with the gate agent and he said all people are checked in and that he will probably have to get the 2 oversold hotel rooms. At this point I decide to take my chances with someone missing or not showing for the Delta flight. (more canons going off outside my hostel). So of course I have to look at the United flight to see if I would have made it. Great, all standby made the flight. I just can not pick the correct flights today. Anyways after waiting and feeling I am not going to make the flight I got the 2nd to last seat on Delta. In LAX I just had to wait 2 hours for an open flight to GUA, on that flight I got business on I think was a 757. I was hoping to sleep but that did not happen.

In GUA I was picked up at the airport by a coworkers niece. I thought I was staying with her for the day/night and heading to Antigua on Sunday. The next thing I know is we are in Antigua and I am getting dropped off at central park. Because it is conference weekend for the church I guess they had things to do on Saturday so I will try and get back with them Thursday afternoon.

Its 7am in Antigua and I have no money as I thought I would be with someone and would wait until the banks open to exchange. Walking around the banks open at 9am so I walk around checking out Antigua and looking for a possible place to stay. While sitting in the park I was approched by 'Jose', he gave me some brochures of places he was pushing, he was nice enough. The hostel he was pushing called ummagumma was in the guidebood so I went there and checked it out. I also walked around looking for other places. After the banks opended and I was able to get some money I ended up back at ummagumma where I got a private room with bath for $10. Then I took a nap as I have been up for around 36 hours with 4 hours of sleep. Woke back up and walked around the town, now a lot more crowded with people. Found a place to eat dinner, went back to the hostel and had a beer and went back to bed, only to wake up at 2:45am.

Not to many plans today, I am going to get out early to take some pictures before the crowds, get a cup of coffee and eat breakfast. I will probably just relax on the rooftop terrace drinking beers this afternoon.

Tomorrow morning I am going to head to Lake Atitlan for a couple of nights, then back to Antigua for a night and back to Guatemala city Thursday to meet up again with the coworkers niece.