1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,600 What's up y'all? 2 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:12,240 Thanks for joining the Travel Tales and Talk podcast with Derek and Makayla. 3 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:13,240 I'm Derek. 4 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:14,240 I'm Makayla. 5 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:17,840 Thanks for listening and enjoy the show. 6 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:24,840 All right, we're back and we're still in Guatemala. 7 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:26,040 So this is episode nine. 8 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:30,760 We're going to leave to Cal and we're going to head to Antigua. 9 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:35,560 But first we have to fly back to Guatemala City because there's no direct flight from 10 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:39,280 Flores to Antigua because they don't have an airport. 11 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:45,040 So we leave to Cal and we go back to Guatemala City and you have scheduled private transportation 12 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:46,040 to Antigua. 13 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:49,480 Awesome, because I don't know if a cab would have took us. 14 00:00:49,480 --> 00:00:53,560 The cab ride would have probably been like what, 5,000 cues. 15 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:56,280 It would have been very expensive. 16 00:00:56,280 --> 00:01:02,400 Crazy, because this is a nice little ride from the airport to Antigua and we have a 17 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:09,320 three night stay in an amazing Airbnb and they named the Airbnb. 18 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:10,320 What's that name? 19 00:01:10,320 --> 00:01:11,320 Real de Lemos. 20 00:01:11,320 --> 00:01:12,320 Man, it's a nice Airbnb. 21 00:01:12,320 --> 00:01:13,320 It's really nice. 22 00:01:13,320 --> 00:01:23,320 They take the old style building and just retrofit it to inside to today's standards. 23 00:01:23,320 --> 00:01:27,560 It was so, so, so sweet. 24 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:30,240 Upstairs had the spiral staircase. 25 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:32,680 Then you had two beds up there with a bathroom. 26 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:34,080 Then you had the master bedroom. 27 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:37,800 Then you had a shower, bathroom. 28 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:38,800 Had this little garden. 29 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:39,800 Yeah, had a little patio actually. 30 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:44,800 Little patio, yeah, give you some sunlight. 31 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:45,800 Yeah. 32 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:46,800 Yeah. 33 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:54,880 What I liked about it, besides the fact that the Airbnb was very beautiful, the owners 34 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:58,120 lived just a couple of doors down. 35 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:04,040 When we arrived, she actually came over and greeted us, helped us get in. 36 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:05,040 She was very involved. 37 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:06,040 Very involved. 38 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:09,360 Gave us places to visit. 39 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:11,920 Anytime we had any questions. 40 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:14,480 She picked right up. 41 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:19,160 Not only would she respond immediately, because we communicated through the app, but she would 42 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:20,160 come down. 43 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:24,360 She actually walked us to some of the places that we couldn't find. 44 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:25,760 It was directions. 45 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:30,040 Yeah, she escorted us, which was amazing. 46 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:32,400 She wanted our stay to be first class, and it was. 47 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:33,400 It was. 48 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:34,400 It really was. 49 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:38,880 Along with her property, it was a first class visit, first class property. 50 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:41,480 Then we have day one planned. 51 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:43,480 My wife, we hit the ground rolling. 52 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:47,280 We throw our bags into the Airbnb, and we're right back in the streets. 53 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:48,280 You know how I am. 54 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:49,280 You got to maximize that time. 55 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:52,000 We're only in these places for a short amount of time. 56 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,160 We were right back in these streets. 57 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:59,200 Antigua, it's a beautiful city. 58 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,280 It was a former capital of Guatemala. 59 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:06,120 I didn't know this until I did my research, until like 1773. 60 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:10,480 That place was demolished three times by natural disasters. 61 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:11,480 Crazy. 62 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:17,800 In 1524, it was destroyed by fire from the indigenous people. 63 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:22,200 They didn't want to be colonized by the Spaniards, so they destroyed the city. 64 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:26,520 Then again in 1541 by a series of earthquakes. 65 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:31,520 Then they had about 200 years of peace. 66 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:41,720 Then in 1773, it was destroyed again by a series of earthquakes that they call these 67 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:42,720 Santa Marita earthquakes. 68 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:45,720 Am I saying that correctly? 69 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:47,720 Santa Martha? 70 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:48,720 Hey. 71 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:51,160 Give me a minute. 72 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:54,240 Derek took notes, and I lost my place in the notes. 73 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:56,240 Yes, it's the first one. 74 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:57,240 Yes, Santa Martha. 75 00:03:57,240 --> 00:03:58,240 Earthquakes. 76 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:00,240 It was a series of earthquakes. 77 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:01,240 Terrimotos. 78 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:02,240 It was a series of earthquakes. 79 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:06,960 About 7.5 on the Richter scale, demolished the city. 80 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:08,960 The Spanish said, you know what? 81 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:11,200 We're not going to rebuild this time. 82 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:16,880 The city pretty much stayed like it was from 1773 to today. 83 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:18,360 That's why it looked the way it looks. 84 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:20,320 It still have the cobblestone streets. 85 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:22,280 The buildings are still the same. 86 00:04:22,280 --> 00:04:27,000 They actually have restrictions where you can't build anything new. 87 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:28,640 You have to maintain what you have. 88 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:33,800 It has to meet those anti-wind standards is what they called it. 89 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:38,520 Then it's surrounded by volcanoes on all sides. 90 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:41,200 Four volcanoes, which is nuts. 91 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:44,480 It's in a valley surrounded by four volcanoes. 92 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:49,440 That picture you wanted to take in the background, that volcano is Agua. 93 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:52,640 I thought it was Pacaya. 94 00:04:52,640 --> 00:05:00,880 The picture that he's referring to, there's this yellow archway. 95 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:02,600 It's on a cobblestone street. 96 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:10,840 If you look through the archway, the archway frames one of the volcanoes, Agua, perfectly. 97 00:05:10,840 --> 00:05:17,360 You can stand just right and you can get a picture of you inside of the archway next 98 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:18,360 to a volcano. 99 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:22,000 That's what he's referring to. 100 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,040 Just a little background on Antigua. 101 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:26,960 That's what makes it like a monument. 102 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:31,240 The city was declared a monument in 1944. 103 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:32,240 That's nuts. 104 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:33,240 What's the plan, babe? 105 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:36,320 What do you have planned for us day one? 106 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:39,060 We visit some local sites. 107 00:05:39,060 --> 00:05:51,000 We have the Cathedral of San Jose, which was actually built in 1545 and was destroyed during 108 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:55,280 an earthquake in the late 1700s. 109 00:05:55,280 --> 00:05:57,560 The ruins still stand. 110 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:04,160 I wanted to visit this cathedral because I had saw people posting about it on Instagram 111 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:09,160 and I thought it looked so amazing. 112 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:20,800 There's pieces of the cathedral that has missing roof, ceilings, floors torn up, but it's beautiful. 113 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:22,520 I just wanted to... You know how I am. 114 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:23,520 I want to touch history. 115 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:25,200 It's a historic site. 116 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:28,160 I wanted to see it in person. 117 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:31,360 We went and it was affordable. 118 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:36,080 It was like... It was like five cues. 119 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:37,080 Five dollars. 120 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:38,080 Something like that. 121 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:41,680 Seven quetzals, I think. 122 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:43,200 It was very inexpensive. 123 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:49,160 It's crazy that these large columns were on the ground, just how massive those columns 124 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:50,160 were. 125 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:55,480 It just has really tall ceilings and the ceiling is gone and then these columns are on the 126 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:56,480 ground. 127 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:59,240 That was a massive structure. 128 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:01,760 1545 is when it was built. 129 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:03,280 It's a massive structure. 130 00:07:03,280 --> 00:07:06,960 The fact that they didn't rope it off so you can actually touch these. 131 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:12,760 Some ruins, they won't let you touch it because the oils, the natural oils from our hands 132 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:15,560 ruined the ruins. 133 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:21,160 It messes up if there's any carvings or anything like that, pictures painted on there. 134 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:24,040 You can't touch it, but here nothing was roped off. 135 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:25,040 You could touch. 136 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:29,960 You could sit on one of the fallen columns if you wanted or anything. 137 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:31,680 Take those amazing Instagram photographs. 138 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:32,680 There you go. 139 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:33,680 There you go. 140 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:36,440 No, but it's a sight to see. 141 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:37,440 It's an amazing structure. 142 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:38,440 You know what? 143 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:39,440 Why you making jokes? 144 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:46,960 We have a picture of me in this cathedral on Instagram that you took. 145 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:48,240 I took it. 146 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:49,800 He took an amazing photo of me. 147 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:51,800 It's sitting on my Instagram, on my IG. 148 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:52,800 Yes. 149 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:55,560 I don't usually do a good job with those photos, but that time I did. 150 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:56,560 That one was nice. 151 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:57,560 It was really nice. 152 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:00,160 You can see the hole in the ceiling and everything. 153 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:05,760 I will applaud you on this visit because I thought, I was like, I don't want to go see 154 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:10,840 abandoned church ruins, but yeah, it's a must see. 155 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:11,840 It's a must do. 156 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:15,440 If you're going to go to Antigua, you got to do that. 157 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:21,680 Then from there, that's when we go to the Ark, which is a cool Ark. 158 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:23,360 I like the color of it. 159 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:26,360 I like the location. 160 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:27,360 It's beautiful. 161 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:31,760 It's the Artico de Santa Catalina. 162 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:34,760 This is the yellow archway that we mentioned previously. 163 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:35,760 Yeah. 164 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:40,960 It was built so nuns can walk from one school to the other without being seen crossing the 165 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:44,160 road because it's Antigua. 166 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:48,400 Really, Guatemala is pretty Catholic, right? 167 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:50,520 Yeah, strong Catholic. 168 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:55,080 The nuns can't walk across the street, so they built the archway so they can go across 169 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:56,080 without being seen. 170 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:57,080 Yeah. 171 00:08:57,080 --> 00:08:59,480 Let me explain it. 172 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:06,440 Where the nuns live was on one side of the street and they taught at the school that 173 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:08,600 was on the other side of the street. 174 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:17,240 The nuns could not be out on the street, so they built this archway to connect these two 175 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:23,480 buildings and the nuns would pass through the archway, so they were not seen out on 176 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:25,160 the street. 177 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:29,400 It was built in the 17th century. 178 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:30,400 It's amazing. 179 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:36,600 I can't believe it stood up to three earthquakes. 180 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:43,960 Yeah, it is still up and I actually have a picture of that on our Instagram as well. 181 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:49,580 It's that beautiful archway that has the volcano in the background. 182 00:09:49,580 --> 00:09:54,520 If you see any photograph of Antigua, even Guatemala, that picture is going to be in 183 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:56,080 that photo array. 184 00:09:56,080 --> 00:10:02,960 It's probably one of the most photographed spots in Guatemala in general. 185 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:04,560 In Central America probably. 186 00:10:04,560 --> 00:10:07,400 Yeah, it's very popular. 187 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:10,520 Then we visit the Jade Museum. 188 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:16,960 I didn't know this much about Jade until I went to Guatemala. 189 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:21,920 How the Guatemala is... Not Guatemala, but Jade is considered to be a symbol of status 190 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:27,400 and wealth and a passport to the next life, to the Mayans back in the day. 191 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:32,440 That's why they hold Jade in such regard in Guatemala. 192 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:36,280 Actually, the museum is a store as well. 193 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:41,520 They have a store and because of the store, they created a museum. 194 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:44,920 Didn't know that either. 195 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:45,920 That's awesome as well. 196 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:48,840 I didn't realize there were different colors of Jade. 197 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:50,400 I always thought it was just green. 198 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:51,400 Me too. 199 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:57,480 Then they used it for when they buried their kings or whatever. 200 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:01,320 They would bury them in Jade because it's passport to the next life. 201 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:03,200 I thought it was just for decorations. 202 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:05,240 I'm like, oh, that's pretty cool. 203 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:09,320 But no, it has some significance behind it. 204 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:16,000 Then also while we were there, this is where we can learn about our narwhals at the Jade 205 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:17,000 Museum. 206 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:18,000 Your spirit animal. 207 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:19,000 Your spirit animal. 208 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:23,640 The Mayans believed that at birth you're connected to an animal, a spirit animal. 209 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:28,360 The narwhals, we actually first heard about it in Tikal. 210 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:32,360 Our tour guide was telling us about the narwhals. 211 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:36,000 At the time, we didn't quite understand what he was talking about. 212 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:40,840 I remember writing it down, but then when we arrived at the Jade Museum, they actually 213 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:43,360 had the book. 214 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:51,400 There's this book, you can look up your birth date along with the year you were born. 215 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:53,640 I don't remember if the time was in there. 216 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:56,240 No, the time was the date of birth. 217 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:57,240 Date of birth. 218 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:00,520 They have all these birth dates. 219 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:05,000 You match it up and it tells you what your spirit animal is. 220 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:11,560 At the Jade Museum, you could buy a little card with your spirit animal information, 221 00:12:11,560 --> 00:12:13,400 which is what we did. 222 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:14,600 Derrick is a, what you call it? 223 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:15,600 He was an alligator, right? 224 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:16,600 I'm a crocodile. 225 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:17,600 Crocodile. 226 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:18,600 What were you? 227 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:19,600 I was a dog. 228 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:20,600 You were a dog. 229 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:21,600 Wolf dog. 230 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:22,600 Wolf dog. 231 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:23,600 The hundred rose was a bat. 232 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:24,600 I thought that was funny. 233 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:25,600 I'm a crocodile. 234 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:36,160 Yeah, I guess we should share what was on our narwhal cards. 235 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:39,360 I don't remember what my item says. 236 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:42,280 We'll have to find our cards and share that with you all. 237 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:44,440 I do recall being a crocodile. 238 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:45,440 Yeah. 239 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:48,000 And you're a dog and London Rose a bat. 240 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:49,000 That is bananas. 241 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:51,400 That is banana, she's a bat. 242 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:58,120 We also visited the Fuente de las Sirenas, which is located in the Central Park. 243 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:04,200 That's basically this fountain, this beautiful fountain with mermaids that the mermaids are 244 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:05,760 spitting water out. 245 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:10,520 That's another must see place if you're walking in Antigua, because this fountain was built 246 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:15,280 in 1737 and it is still up. 247 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:21,840 So it is made up of four mermaids holding their breasts in their hands. 248 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:23,280 Derek has a big smile on his face. 249 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:24,280 You little naughty thing. 250 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:27,280 No, I'm just saying it's a nice fountain. 251 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:30,280 I like the way the fountain looks. 252 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:31,280 I bet. 253 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:35,640 And then the location too, that park, the Central Park, everything that happens in that 254 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:39,120 Central Park, it was lively the whole time we were there. 255 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:42,960 I think one night, didn't they have like a party or something? 256 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:47,000 It's the Central, was it Parque de Central? 257 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:48,640 And then around there they have all the shops. 258 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:50,760 The Jay Museum is like right across the street. 259 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:53,320 The coffee shop we went to was right there. 260 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:55,840 So everything is there in that Central Park. 261 00:13:55,840 --> 00:14:04,880 You'll even see some of the indigenous people there selling things, making things, just 262 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:07,800 hanging out, which is pretty awesome. 263 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:10,900 And those blankets, right? 264 00:14:10,900 --> 00:14:12,240 Those made by hand. 265 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:13,240 Yes. 266 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:15,080 Like every stitch is by hand. 267 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:18,160 Like the indigenous clothes. 268 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:27,360 Like don't get it twisted, the dress that the Guatemalan women wear, we're talking about 269 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:29,520 easy. 270 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:36,720 You can pay about a grand, $500 and up, easy for these handmade dress. 271 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:40,000 Cause I always, I say, Ooh, I'm going to get one, babe. 272 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:44,520 And Derek was like, think again, you see the price on that? 273 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:47,600 And that's a, you better use your converter. 274 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:51,880 And I was like, man, I'm thinking I'm about to come down here and get a deal. 275 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:57,720 Cause you know, the Guatemalan Quetzal is only about what? 276 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:00,720 It was last night, what 13 to one? 277 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:01,720 Something. 278 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:02,720 No, it wasn't that much. 279 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:06,480 It's like seven to one, $1 equals, Oh, 13 of theirs. 280 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:07,800 It was something like that. 281 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:08,800 Yeah. 282 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:11,760 So we're thinking, you know, Ooh, we about to make it rain. 283 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:12,760 No, not on that. 284 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:13,760 You not, you going to pay. 285 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:14,760 You going to pay full price. 286 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:16,800 You are going to pay. 287 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:17,800 But it's beautiful. 288 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:18,800 It's worth it. 289 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:19,800 It's handmade. 290 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:20,800 It's stunning. 291 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:22,600 It's nothing that you wear every day. 292 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:26,240 I'm going to tell you that even though the Guatemalan people, they will wear theirs, 293 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:29,000 you know, out and about. 294 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:31,160 It's for special occasions. 295 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:32,160 Yeah. 296 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:35,000 Cause it's made by hand, quality materials. 297 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,680 It's not polyester, none of that stuff. 298 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:39,920 It's authentic Guatemalan. 299 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:40,920 Yeah. 300 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:45,600 From the old world. 301 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:48,280 And I think that's it for day one. 302 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:52,240 That's a lot for day one because we have to get prepared for day two where we're going 303 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:54,240 to scale a volcano. 304 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:55,240 Yes. 305 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:56,720 Whose idea was that? 306 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:59,360 Hey, don't, don't knock it. 307 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:00,360 Don't knock it. 308 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:10,280 I had an idea, you know, actually how I saw this tour was I was looking, you know, researching 309 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:17,480 things to do, you know, in Antigua or near Antigua and I went on, you know, getyourguy.com 310 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:25,800 via tour.com and there was this tour that kept popping up where you can roast marshmallows 311 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:27,720 on an active volcano. 312 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:29,560 And I was like, gosh darn it. 313 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:30,560 Sign me up. 314 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:32,760 That's what I need to be doing in Guatemala. 315 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:39,040 I need to climb a volcano with my bag of marshmallows and stick it on a stick and roast it. 316 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:41,040 Yes, yes, yes. 317 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:42,880 So that's what we did. 318 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:43,880 That's a great idea. 319 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:47,160 If I wasn't coming off Achilles tendon surgery. 320 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:52,200 Well, yeah, because Derek playing football towards Achilles tendon. 321 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:55,080 She's like, we're going to walk, we're going to scale a volcano. 322 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:56,080 I'm like, who? 323 00:16:56,080 --> 00:17:00,040 I just started walking again. 324 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:02,600 So we ended up renting a horse. 325 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:03,600 So okay. 326 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:07,800 So when you arrive, well, first of all, we booked our tickets online. 327 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:08,800 Okay. 328 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:10,240 We booked the transport online. 329 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:12,320 They came and picked us up before sunrise. 330 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:15,480 I think it was like five, six o'clock in the morning. 331 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:16,480 It was early. 332 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:23,880 Because where we had to drive now, Guatemala has an interstate, but it ain't really an 333 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:24,880 interstate. 334 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:28,080 It's not like what we have here. 335 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:31,640 The on and off ramp, I swear we got on from a dirt road. 336 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:33,800 It was very interesting. 337 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:35,360 It was very interesting. 338 00:17:35,360 --> 00:17:39,640 So it was not a really direct shot to this volcano. 339 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:43,440 Although it looks like it, because you're in Antigua and you can see the volcano, that 340 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:44,440 should be a straight line. 341 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:45,440 It should be. 342 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:46,440 It's not. 343 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:47,440 But it's not. 344 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:50,000 So if you're ever going to rent a car and do this. 345 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:51,000 Don't do it. 346 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:52,000 Don't rent a car. 347 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:53,000 Don't do it. 348 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:54,000 Because we had to drive through little towns. 349 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:58,960 And when we're talking about little towns, I mean, their roads were the size of horse 350 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:01,280 and buggy like in Ronda. 351 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:03,440 And we saw that horse and buggy on the road. 352 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:09,520 You literally see people in like our little van was driving around horse and buggy and 353 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:11,520 people herding sheep and goats. 354 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:13,200 Herds of goats. 355 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:14,200 On the streets. 356 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:20,320 And we're talking about, you know, houses like regular neighborhoods. 357 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:22,680 And it was bananas. 358 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:28,760 We saw, we passed a truck that had three little boys holding on to the back. 359 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:30,520 I guess they hitched a ride. 360 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:33,720 It was just the most amazing thing. 361 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:35,000 It was dangerous as heck. 362 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,000 But we were like amazed. 363 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:38,120 It was an exciting ride. 364 00:18:38,120 --> 00:18:40,320 These kids right here are living the life. 365 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:41,320 Man. 366 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:42,320 At like 10 years old. 367 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:43,320 Yeah. 368 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:44,960 Child labor laws don't exist. 369 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:48,200 Just hanging on, getting them a ride to wherever they need to go. 370 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:49,200 It was amazing. 371 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:53,560 So for one, you're not going to want to drive because you're going to see a whole bunch 372 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:54,560 of nonsense. 373 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:55,920 You're going to be amazed. 374 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:59,200 And you can't enjoy it if you're driving. 375 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:03,360 But there's also points where you're going up. 376 00:19:03,360 --> 00:19:05,680 Like cliffs. 377 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:08,840 And when I say cliffs, it's like the cliff you see on the scary movies. 378 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:10,240 You ain't got no guard rail. 379 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:11,240 Yeah. 380 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:14,240 You look over the side and you see the rocks going down the side of the mountain. 381 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:15,240 Yeah. 382 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:16,240 You on the edge. 383 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:17,240 It was like that. 384 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:23,960 And now that I'm saying this, I don't think I would do it no more. 385 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:28,560 It wasn't that scary because a guy, he made me feel comfortable because he knew what he 386 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:29,600 was doing. 387 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:32,400 But I was like, we're pretty close to the edge. 388 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:33,400 Yes. 389 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:34,840 And there's no room. 390 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:38,520 It could have went left real fast. 391 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:44,080 And there's always somebody on a moped zipping around through it. 392 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:46,080 I don't like... 393 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:47,080 Yep. 394 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:49,520 And the guy driving the van, he was okay. 395 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:50,520 He was all right. 396 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:51,520 It's like he knew it. 397 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:54,120 Any minute now I'm going to have a moped or a motorcycle come through here. 398 00:19:54,120 --> 00:19:55,120 Yep. 399 00:19:55,120 --> 00:19:56,120 Always. 400 00:19:56,120 --> 00:19:57,800 Somebody on the moped or motorcycle zooming by. 401 00:19:57,800 --> 00:19:58,800 Yes. 402 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:08,480 So when we finally got to Pacaya, Pacaya was the volcano that we arrived to. 403 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:12,920 And there was like 20 men out front, even little boys. 404 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:17,220 And they're all trying to either A, sell you a tour. 405 00:20:17,220 --> 00:20:18,760 They want to be your tour guide. 406 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:22,320 You pay them to get you up the mountain. 407 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:26,720 B, they want to let you rent their horse. 408 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:29,880 Or C, they're trying to sell you walking sticks. 409 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:31,280 Walking sticks, yep. 410 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:34,680 So we ended up renting a horse. 411 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:35,680 Normally... 412 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:37,680 We rented three horses. 413 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:46,080 Yeah, we rented three horses because we couldn't just have Derek trying to walk up the volcano. 414 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:50,280 And normally I don't like labor of animals like that, but... 415 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:51,280 Wait a minute. 416 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:54,000 You didn't ride the horse up. 417 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:55,120 You did ride them down. 418 00:20:55,120 --> 00:20:58,400 I rode the horse up because I did try... 419 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:03,200 Okay, so the horse saddle was really hurting my bottom. 420 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:04,200 Okay? 421 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:05,600 It was uncomfortable for me. 422 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:10,400 So I was hopping off my horse and said, I'm going to walk a little bit. 423 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:14,920 Boy, I'm going to walk a little bit. 424 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:16,920 And they were like, you sure? 425 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:20,540 Yes, I'm sure. 426 00:21:20,540 --> 00:21:25,240 And I got off and I walked that dog on horse for about 15 steps. 427 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:26,240 And I was like, okay. 428 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:27,480 Let me get back on this horse. 429 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:28,480 Because it's an incline. 430 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:33,000 It is a legit incline from the beginning to the end, from the bottom to the top. 431 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:34,660 And it's rough terrain. 432 00:21:34,660 --> 00:21:36,080 And it's very steep. 433 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:41,040 So if you're going to walk it, definitely get a walking stick. 434 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:44,280 At the time, they didn't have little four-wheelers. 435 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:45,960 I think now they offer four-wheelers. 436 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:46,960 Yeah. 437 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:47,960 We were looking that up. 438 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:50,440 You can get an ACV or something and ride up. 439 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:53,480 But I think it's best either to walk or ride the horse. 440 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:55,280 You get the better experience in my opinion. 441 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:56,280 Yeah. 442 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:59,880 But you know, and I just, hindsight 2020, I kind of feel bad because the horse, you 443 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:01,280 know, these are like private horses. 444 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:06,480 So the gentleman that I rented the horse from, that was his horse. 445 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,920 So his son was there working and that was their- 446 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:10,920 That's their job. 447 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:11,920 Yeah. 448 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:12,920 And that was their pet horse. 449 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:13,920 That's their business, yeah. 450 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:14,920 Yeah. 451 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:16,040 And that was his one horse. 452 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:17,640 He owned that one horse, right? 453 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:19,160 It was just the one, right? 454 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:20,160 No, I had a horse. 455 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:21,160 You had a horse? 456 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:22,160 That was his horse too? 457 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:23,160 London Rose had a horse. 458 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:24,160 All those were his? 459 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:25,160 I assume so. 460 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:27,920 Because I think that was his one horse. 461 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:28,920 Okay. 462 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:31,120 And they kind of hung with me. 463 00:22:31,120 --> 00:22:32,600 And you know, and I felt bad. 464 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:34,600 I was like, ooh, his horse looks hot. 465 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:36,200 And I ain't no lightweight. 466 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:38,720 Your horse was trained for this, baby. 467 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:39,720 He do this every day. 468 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:40,720 I feel bad. 469 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:41,720 Probably three or four times. 470 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:42,720 I feel bad. 471 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:43,720 I know. 472 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:47,880 And so we finally get to the top. 473 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:51,040 It took us about 30, 45 minutes maybe? 474 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:54,480 I would say it took at least an hour. 475 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:55,480 To get to the top? 476 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:59,680 Because we had to stop a couple of times because I don't know, recall the lady from Canada. 477 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:00,680 She kept getting tired. 478 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:01,680 Oh yeah. 479 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:03,140 So yeah. 480 00:23:03,140 --> 00:23:07,560 But even so, the horse doesn't even go up to the top. 481 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:13,000 There's like a lookout spot for all of the horse to sit. 482 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:18,200 And you have to by foot continue up the volcano. 483 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:24,360 So to get to the part where you have the open, the vents where you, you know, the steam is 484 00:23:24,360 --> 00:23:27,200 coming up where you can roast your marshmallows. 485 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:35,000 So on the way to this spot that our tour guide was taking us, we passed through a little 486 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:36,000 shop. 487 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:37,000 Yeah. 488 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,760 And that shop built onto the side of this volcano, sold. 489 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:43,080 There was two shops there, wasn't it? 490 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:44,080 It was just the one. 491 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:45,080 Just the one? 492 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:48,280 And they sold jewelry like made out of lava. 493 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:50,280 Didn't I buy you some of that jewelry? 494 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:51,280 You bought it. 495 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:52,280 Okay. 496 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:53,280 Some earrings, right? 497 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:54,280 It was a necklace. 498 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:55,280 Necklace. 499 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:56,280 I wear it. 500 00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:57,280 Don't try me. 501 00:23:57,280 --> 00:23:58,280 I'm not, no one's trying you. 502 00:23:58,280 --> 00:23:59,280 I just remember, I recall buying you something from this shop. 503 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:00,280 Yeah. 504 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,160 You bought me a necklace made out of lava rock. 505 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:03,160 Yeah. 506 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:04,160 Which is- Isn't it called obsidian? 507 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:05,160 Yeah. 508 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:06,160 Isn't obsidian lava? 509 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:07,160 Yeah. 510 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:08,160 And it's extremely sharp. 511 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:09,160 Yes. 512 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:10,160 Yeah. 513 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:11,920 And you're gonna have snacks in there because it's hot. 514 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:12,920 There's no shade. 515 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:13,920 No trees. 516 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:15,720 And be very careful. 517 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:22,560 I almost twisted my ankle quite a few times because the lava rock, like the side of the 518 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,800 volcano, it's sharp. 519 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:27,520 It's uneven. 520 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:30,800 It's a clumsy person's nightmare. 521 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:34,360 So if you're clumsy, don't do this tour. 522 00:24:34,360 --> 00:24:35,360 Be careful. 523 00:24:35,360 --> 00:24:41,600 And then there's also the option to eat pizza on the volcano. 524 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:42,960 So they were cooking pizza. 525 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:43,960 Oh, yes. 526 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:45,560 Derek didn't want to go down there and get none. 527 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:47,320 So you know, pizza's my favorite food. 528 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:51,800 In fact, we ate a pizza on our way here to record today. 529 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:55,000 And it's my, he's like, we just had marshmallows. 530 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:56,000 Pizza Friday. 531 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:57,000 We're good, okay? 532 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:58,880 We ain't gotta do all that. 533 00:24:58,880 --> 00:24:59,880 I didn't want pizza. 534 00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:00,880 But, okay. 535 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:01,880 I did not want pizza. 536 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:04,720 Better believe the next time we come, I'm gonna get some pizza. 537 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:05,720 Yeah. 538 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:06,960 Off the side of a volcano. 539 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:09,760 From Pachaya, you can look across and see Fuego. 540 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:10,760 You can. 541 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:11,760 You can see the other volcano. 542 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:15,480 So Fuego's a volcano that be shooting out lava. 543 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:16,480 Yeah. 544 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:17,480 Pachaya be shooting up smoke. 545 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:20,000 And while we were there, it was emitting smoke. 546 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:21,000 Yep. 547 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:22,000 Or ash. 548 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:23,000 Both were. 549 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,000 Ash, yeah. 550 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:25,000 Both were actually. 551 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,680 And actually a couple of days before we arrived, they said there was an eruption of Fuego, 552 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:29,680 a small eruption. 553 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:30,680 Yes. 554 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:33,320 So we got lucky and missed out on the eruption. 555 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:34,320 Lucky my eye. 556 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:40,680 So you can actually, because I wanted to be, because Fuego has the tours where you can 557 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:41,680 sleep. 558 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:42,760 You can camp. 559 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:43,760 Camp on it. 560 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:44,760 Yep. 561 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:49,840 And in the middle of the night, they'll get up and try to take pictures of lava kind of 562 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:51,320 just popping up a little bit. 563 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:52,320 I wanted to do that. 564 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:53,320 I saw that one too. 565 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:54,640 I saw that one too, but I don't know if I wanna do that one. 566 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:58,680 And the only reason why I didn't do it is because we had London Rose. 567 00:25:58,680 --> 00:25:59,680 And it's at night. 568 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:00,680 And it's at night. 569 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:05,320 And it sounds like, ooh, anything could happen then. 570 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:08,400 As if walking in a jungle with a wild. 571 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:09,400 Right, with a volcano. 572 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:10,400 Jaguar ain't nothing but. 573 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,400 Surrounded by jaguars and pumas. 574 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,320 What else could go wrong? 575 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:17,320 Yeah. 576 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:25,760 So walking up that volcano, you're about 8,500 feet above sea level. 577 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:26,960 And just a little cost. 578 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,560 We had $35 for the transport. 579 00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:31,680 They picked us up right in front. 580 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:32,680 Yep. 581 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:35,240 At our front door of our Airbnb. 582 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:38,480 And they dropped us off at the same location for. 583 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,440 The horse. 584 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:41,440 The horse. 585 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:42,440 Was it. 586 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:43,440 28 bucks. 587 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:44,440 $28 per person. 588 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:45,440 Per person. 589 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:46,440 Up and down. 590 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:47,440 So it was a round trip. 591 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:48,440 Up and down. 592 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:50,280 And I ended up walking my horse down. 593 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:54,320 And I still paid the fee because I knew it was a private owned. 594 00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:56,840 I wanted to support the locals. 595 00:26:56,840 --> 00:27:01,040 And just to get into. 596 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:03,280 It's considered a national park to go on the volcano. 597 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,360 It was 50 quetzals. 598 00:27:06,360 --> 00:27:11,600 And that was about $7 US dollars per person. 599 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:12,600 So we spent. 600 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:17,560 From the time we woke up to the time we got back to the Airbnb. 601 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,960 It was about 5 to 6 hours a day. 602 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:21,960 Yep. 603 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:22,960 So. 604 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:24,200 And that was our entire day. 605 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:25,200 Yeah because we were beat. 606 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:26,200 I know I was. 607 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,720 Yeah because the transport that we got. 608 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,160 It wasn't a private transport. 609 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:32,160 There were other people. 610 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,960 And we had stops like a bus stop. 611 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,000 You know like we were in school. 612 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,000 And when everyone got onto the van. 613 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:40,000 He stopped at a restaurant. 614 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,000 I'm like bro when we get into. 615 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:43,000 He was like. 616 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:44,000 He got breakfast. 617 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,000 He went and got breakfast at the plaza. 618 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:47,000 At the central park. 619 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:48,360 Yeah where the mermaids were. 620 00:27:48,360 --> 00:27:49,360 So it was like. 621 00:27:49,360 --> 00:27:53,160 And then next thing I know everybody hopped off. 622 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,160 You know it was a ton of people had to go get their coffee. 623 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,480 I ain't gonna lie now I'm not a coffee drinker. 624 00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:59,120 But it was me neither. 625 00:27:59,120 --> 00:28:00,120 But the breakfast. 626 00:28:00,120 --> 00:28:01,120 It was good. 627 00:28:01,120 --> 00:28:02,120 The day side you know. 628 00:28:02,120 --> 00:28:03,120 It was delicious. 629 00:28:03,120 --> 00:28:04,120 Breakfast was good. 630 00:28:04,120 --> 00:28:05,120 It was delicious. 631 00:28:05,120 --> 00:28:09,040 And they had restaurants that opened up early. 632 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:10,040 Like the sun was just rising. 633 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:11,040 Just for that. 634 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:12,880 Just for that because they know tourists are there to do it. 635 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:13,880 Yep. 636 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:14,880 So they take advantage of it. 637 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:15,880 They sure do. 638 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:16,880 Don't blame them. 639 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:17,880 Can't blame them. 640 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:18,880 So that was day two. 641 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:19,880 And we were spent. 642 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:21,440 After we did that it was time to just. 643 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:23,560 I don't even think we ate dinner that night. 644 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:24,560 I don't. 645 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:25,560 I don't recall eating dinner. 646 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:27,600 I recall just going to bed. 647 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:28,760 That's it. 648 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:30,120 It was an amazing day. 649 00:28:30,120 --> 00:28:34,720 And in day three we just walked around town. 650 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:36,960 Took pictures. 651 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:39,960 And we visited the library there. 652 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:40,960 Which was. 653 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:41,960 That library was beautiful. 654 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:42,960 That library was beautiful. 655 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:43,960 It looked. 656 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:48,720 It looked like a world UNESCO site. 657 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,600 They had a whole garden in the library. 658 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:52,800 And I took this. 659 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:53,960 I don't know where the books were. 660 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:54,960 I asked my husband. 661 00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:55,960 I was like is this the library? 662 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:56,960 I said where the books? 663 00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:57,960 We ain't passed no books. 664 00:28:57,960 --> 00:28:58,960 I thought it was a hotel. 665 00:28:58,960 --> 00:28:59,960 I'm like what is this? 666 00:28:59,960 --> 00:29:04,720 And it had bibliotheca on there plain as day. 667 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,280 But it looked like it was in the art museum somewhere. 668 00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:08,600 It was so beautiful. 669 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:12,040 Now in our defense we didn't walk all up and through there. 670 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,040 So the books was in there somewhere. 671 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:16,760 But we got caught up by the architecture on the outside. 672 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:17,760 It was just amazing. 673 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:18,760 Yes. 674 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:19,760 It's a beautiful building. 675 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:23,440 And the courtyard in the middle was stunning as well. 676 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:24,440 Yeah. 677 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:26,120 And that's day three. 678 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,400 We just relaxed at the library. 679 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,880 Because we got a rest that we're checking out because we're going on an amazing adventure 680 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,680 to Hobbit Town the next morning. 681 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:35,680 Yes. 682 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:41,160 Because I'm obsessed with Lord of the Rings and I just had to stay in the Hobhouse. 683 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,160 Don't look like that. 684 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:44,280 You know good will. 685 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:45,280 When I showed you them pictures. 686 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:46,280 We had a great time. 687 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:47,280 I enjoyed it. 688 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:51,240 Look when I showed Derrick the site he was like yeah that looked like something I want 689 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:52,240 to do. 690 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:53,240 Yeah. 691 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:54,720 I've never seen Lord of the Rings. 692 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,280 I've never seen Lord of the Rings or the Hobbit. 693 00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:58,280 But that sure looks fun. 694 00:29:58,280 --> 00:29:59,280 It does. 695 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:00,280 It did look fun. 696 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:03,760 Because okay so day what day is that? 697 00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:04,760 Day three? 698 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:06,120 It's day four. 699 00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:07,120 Day four. 700 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:08,120 Day four. 701 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:09,120 We went to Hobbitanongo. 702 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:10,120 Hobbit Town. 703 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:11,120 Hobbit Town. 704 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:12,120 It was built in 2015. 705 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:13,120 But here's the thing. 706 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:14,120 The ride up. 707 00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:15,120 Oh. 708 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:22,120 So this ride is more dangerous than the ride to the volcano. 709 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,120 Okay so you know me. 710 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:28,960 Of course you know I did my little research and I went on TikTok and Instagram and looking 711 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:29,960 at pictures. 712 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:30,960 They leave all that stuff out. 713 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:31,960 People done took. 714 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:37,800 I was like ooh we can really get some amazing photos you know for our travel wall in our 715 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:39,480 house. 716 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:47,040 And I hired this photographer and she met us at the pick up point in Antigua and we 717 00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:49,840 when I tell y'all the weather was gorgeous okay. 718 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:50,840 Perfect. 719 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:56,840 And we're in the van, the transport going up to Hobbitanongo. 720 00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:57,840 Another death cliff. 721 00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:01,040 I'm like man is everything on a cliff? 722 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,040 And we were in a larger vehicle. 723 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:04,800 We were in a larger vehicle. 724 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,400 And the roads were smaller. 725 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:08,440 And they were so small. 726 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,840 They were practically one way roads. 727 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:11,840 It was one way. 728 00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:18,400 And cars would have to bag into driveways or nooks so other cars could pass. 729 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,160 It was scary. 730 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:23,520 It was very very scary nonetheless. 731 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,800 But we got there safe and sound. 732 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,160 We had our luggage and everything. 733 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:38,560 And I be gosh darn it that the moment the moment we parked at the Hobbitanongo entrance 734 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:43,240 is like the clouds rolled in. 735 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:44,440 It fogged. 736 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:46,080 It was like something out of a scary movie. 737 00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:47,400 It was like ha ha ha. 738 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,320 The joke's on you. 739 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:51,520 No photos today folks. 740 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:52,520 That's what it was like. 741 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:53,520 And the fog just came in. 742 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,520 It was like the movie The Fog where the fog comes in and kills everybody. 743 00:31:56,520 --> 00:32:00,400 I was like god dang it where the sun at? 744 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,680 And the lady looked at me like. 745 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:03,680 This happens all the time. 746 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:07,760 Sister you done paid and there ain't no refund so what we gonna do? 747 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:10,160 And I was so defeated. 748 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,160 So when I tell y'all. 749 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:13,160 It's crazy. 750 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,560 I bought a dress for this moment. 751 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,720 We had everything planned to a T. 752 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,600 We had the photoshoot planned. 753 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:24,680 Because we had the largest Hobbit house. 754 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:26,920 We're gonna talk about the Hobbit house in a minute. 755 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:27,920 We had the most. 756 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:28,920 We had the largest one. 757 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:29,920 We had the largest one. 758 00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:33,280 It was beautiful in there. 759 00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:35,760 But I didn't want pictures inside the house. 760 00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:38,120 I wanted pictures. 761 00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:43,760 In Hobbitanongo there is this hand where there's this giant hand that's like carved into the 762 00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:52,240 side of the one of the mountains and there's this hand that juts out over the side of the 763 00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:53,240 cliff. 764 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:54,240 It's basically a cliff. 765 00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:55,240 It's very dangerous. 766 00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:59,840 But if you're standing on this hand you can see all the. 767 00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:02,320 Like you're up in the sky literally. 768 00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:05,760 And off in the distance you have Fuego. 769 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:07,960 The volcano right behind you. 770 00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:09,440 It is picturesque. 771 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:10,440 It is beautiful. 772 00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:11,440 It is amazing. 773 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:12,440 We got nothing. 774 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:17,080 And I paid that woman money literally for that one. 775 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:18,320 I just wanted that one picture. 776 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,040 I didn't care what else she did. 777 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:24,240 Just give me that one shot of me and my family on this darn hand with this white. 778 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:25,240 It was so cloudy. 779 00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:26,240 Can you see the hand? 780 00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:29,840 It was so cloudy that you literally. 781 00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:32,160 And it started raining. 782 00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:33,620 And I had on heels. 783 00:33:33,620 --> 00:33:37,840 I had on a gold, a copper lame jumpsuit. 784 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:38,840 You looked really nice that day. 785 00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:39,840 Hair all done. 786 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:40,840 Thank you baby. 787 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,040 I tell you the hand was slippery. 788 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:44,040 We could have slipped. 789 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:45,840 We could have felt tired. 790 00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:47,000 We were in danger. 791 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,400 And the lady was like insisting no we can do it. 792 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:52,200 And I just. 793 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:56,280 I smiled but I really wanted to cry because. 794 00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:59,140 The whole time we've been in Guatemala we hadn't dealt with weather. 795 00:33:59,140 --> 00:34:01,080 It was beautiful weather until that moment. 796 00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,920 I'm telling y'all it was like the jokes on you. 797 00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:04,920 Sellers. 798 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:05,920 You know. 799 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,880 To the moment we pulled up we had perfect weather. 800 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:10,360 No photos for you. 801 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:11,360 That's what it felt like. 802 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:12,360 And let me tell y'all. 803 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:15,320 This lady was insisting she was going to take these dog on pictures. 804 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:16,320 Oh yeah. 805 00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:17,320 Through hell or high water. 806 00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:18,320 She got to get that money. 807 00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,720 And she took the pictures and we literally. 808 00:34:20,720 --> 00:34:24,560 It looked like the background was just all white. 809 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:25,880 Because the fog covered. 810 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:27,920 It was thick fog. 811 00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:28,960 It was thick. 812 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:32,120 We saw nothing but a hand and us on it. 813 00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:33,120 Yep. 814 00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:34,120 And then. 815 00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:35,640 We really just saw our silhouettes in the fog. 816 00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:36,640 Yeah. 817 00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:37,640 It was scary. 818 00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:42,240 But then she you know we went inside of our hobbit house and she took pictures. 819 00:34:42,240 --> 00:34:45,600 And you know our our hobbit house had a terrace on top. 820 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:49,520 So we were literally on the roof and taking pictures. 821 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:50,520 And I smiled. 822 00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:51,880 I tried to be a good sport. 823 00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:53,840 But and the lady did a phenomenal job. 824 00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:58,280 If we ever go back I will absolutely book her again because they were not her fault. 825 00:34:58,280 --> 00:34:59,760 The weather was not her fault. 826 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:00,760 She's a great photographer. 827 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:04,200 The pictures that she took were beautiful. 828 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:05,680 They just weren't the pictures I wanted. 829 00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:06,680 Right. 830 00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:07,680 And we had a bad weather. 831 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:08,680 We had terrible. 832 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:09,680 You couldn't see anything. 833 00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:10,680 We couldn't see anything. 834 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:11,680 Nothing. 835 00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:12,680 And. 836 00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:13,680 But yeah. 837 00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:14,680 She's amazing. 838 00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:17,920 So if you want her information. 839 00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:19,440 I can definitely give it to you. 840 00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:21,240 She's a phenomenal photographer. 841 00:35:21,240 --> 00:35:22,240 I just. 842 00:35:22,240 --> 00:35:26,080 I just wasn't happy because I really wanted that one picture. 843 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:30,440 So what I ended up doing with that one picture. 844 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:32,200 I ended up blowing it up. 845 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:33,600 The one with the hand. 846 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,120 And I put it in black and white. 847 00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:37,600 And it hangs over our bed at home. 848 00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:39,680 Did they have a name for that hand. 849 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:41,840 It can't just be the hand. 850 00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:42,840 I don't remember. 851 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:43,840 I don't recall. 852 00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:44,840 Because everything was named. 853 00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:46,080 The Hobbit House is our name. 854 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:47,760 The restaurant is name. 855 00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:48,760 Was it Toro Negro? 856 00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:49,760 I don't know. 857 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:50,760 Is it the restaurant? 858 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:51,760 I'm sure it was. 859 00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:53,600 We need to look that up. 860 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,120 I'm sure it was. 861 00:35:55,120 --> 00:36:00,280 But what we did end up doing because where we slept. 862 00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:01,280 Where our house was. 863 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:02,560 The Hobbit House. 864 00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:03,560 We were right. 865 00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:05,320 The hand was literally in our. 866 00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:06,320 Right. 867 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:08,200 People had to walk past our house to get to. 868 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,040 It was not in our backyard. 869 00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:13,440 But like it was right next to our house. 870 00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:20,120 So we were able to wake up and have sunrise pictures on the hand. 871 00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:23,000 And let me tell y'all after the photographer left and what not. 872 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:24,000 It cleared up. 873 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:25,000 It cleared up. 874 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,960 It was like this woman brought the fog with her. 875 00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:34,520 But the next morning we were able to wake up and take the most amazing photos. 876 00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:36,800 On this hand. 877 00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:38,080 The view was spectacular. 878 00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:42,800 I ended up getting some amazing pictures of Derek and London Rose. 879 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:48,960 And the one of Derek actually hangs on our gallery wall at home because it's so beautiful. 880 00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:50,840 But just a little bit. 881 00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:55,080 A little bit about Hobbitonongo or Hobbitonongo. 882 00:36:55,080 --> 00:37:00,560 There are 26 attractions to enjoy or places. 883 00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:01,960 Also places around in there. 884 00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:05,920 But in the park there's the restaurant Toro Negro. 885 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,040 There are fairground rides. 886 00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:09,920 There's axe throwing. 887 00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:17,920 There's actually indigenous people that have stands that you can buy authentic artifacts 888 00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:21,040 and items. 889 00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:23,680 The truck ride up there is about 20 minutes. 890 00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:24,680 Not truck ride. 891 00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:27,200 But the car ride. 892 00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:28,200 We took a truck. 893 00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:29,200 We did. 894 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:30,200 We took a truck. 895 00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:31,200 We were in like a bag of a. 896 00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:32,200 Pick up truck. 897 00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:35,200 Pick up truck with seats in it. 898 00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:36,880 The cliffside view I'm telling you. 899 00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:37,880 Have your phone out. 900 00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:42,960 I don't know because we had that big room. 901 00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:43,960 We had the personal butler. 902 00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:44,960 Oh yeah. 903 00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:46,680 I don't know if that's for every room. 904 00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:47,680 But I know our room has it. 905 00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:48,680 I'm not sure. 906 00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:49,680 Because we stayed. 907 00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:52,760 Our house was called Cala Esmeralda. 908 00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:55,760 It's the big one with the red door. 909 00:37:55,760 --> 00:38:00,800 If you go to their site it's Hobbitonongo.com. 910 00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:01,800 And we did. 911 00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:03,600 We had a personal butler. 912 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:07,240 And our room we had a private bedroom. 913 00:38:07,240 --> 00:38:10,400 And in the living room there was a day bed in there. 914 00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:12,780 There was a couch that pulled out. 915 00:38:12,780 --> 00:38:15,760 So I think six people can stay there. 916 00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:20,960 And then what I liked about our house was the wall. 917 00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:25,880 Like the side of the house that was on the cliff was just glass. 918 00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:27,840 It was windows. 919 00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:31,680 And it was like wall to wall windows. 920 00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:37,520 And we ended up opening the windows and we had the view of the volcano from our bed, 921 00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:39,800 from the couch, from everywhere. 922 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:40,800 It was beautiful. 923 00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,440 And that night there was a thunderstorm. 924 00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:45,200 That night it was thunderstorm yes. 925 00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:51,000 And we could see the lightning strikes behind the volcano. 926 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,840 That was really really special. 927 00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:54,840 It was. 928 00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:58,840 I kind of got some of that, I recorded some of it and I wish I could like screenshot it 929 00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,160 real quick and make it like a screen saver. 930 00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:02,520 But that was really cool. 931 00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:05,280 Just seeing the lightning strikes behind the volcano. 932 00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:08,360 It was like a, what was that movie like? 933 00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:09,360 War of the Worlds. 934 00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:10,360 War of the Worlds? 935 00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:11,360 It did. 936 00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:12,360 It did. 937 00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:20,080 Now the one thing that of course you know with it, you know how I am about the dark 938 00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:22,920 and Derek let's leave the curtains open. 939 00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:23,920 Sleep with the window. 940 00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:24,920 You bananas. 941 00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:25,920 Yeah. 942 00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:26,920 That would be a no. 943 00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:27,920 Yeah. 944 00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,640 Because that means anything he could come walk in pass and see us. 945 00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:32,640 Big foot would be looking at us. 946 00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:37,560 So we had to rig them curtains closed, London Rose build a fort. 947 00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:38,560 Yeah. 948 00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:40,960 And we had a good time. 949 00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:41,960 No TVs. 950 00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:42,960 Oh no TVs. 951 00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:43,960 No TVs. 952 00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:45,760 It's designed to disconnect. 953 00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:46,760 Yeah. 954 00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:47,760 It was, yeah. 955 00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:50,800 And our house did not have a fireplace but. 956 00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:51,800 Sure didn't. 957 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:56,440 There's some of the other ones did and there was another couple out there taking sunrise 958 00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:57,440 pictures. 959 00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:58,440 Yeah. 960 00:39:58,440 --> 00:39:59,440 And their house had a fireplace. 961 00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:00,440 We should have had a fireplace. 962 00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:01,440 And they lit theirs there and I was like oh man. 963 00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:02,440 Man I wish we had a fireplace. 964 00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:03,440 That would have been nice. 965 00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:04,440 I know so romantic. 966 00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:05,440 So romantic. 967 00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:06,440 Yeah. 968 00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:07,440 That would have been cool. 969 00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:08,440 Mmhmm. 970 00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:13,440 But our house was the only one with a terrace. 971 00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:14,440 We had the best house. 972 00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:15,440 We did. 973 00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:16,440 The biggest house. 974 00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:21,200 It was the only house of, like you know I was just trying to be up in the park and it 975 00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:23,160 was, we had to end up getting the most expensive one. 976 00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:24,160 It wasn't that expensive. 977 00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:25,160 It was like 115 USD. 978 00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:26,160 Yeah. 979 00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:27,160 So that's not that much. 980 00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:28,160 No. 981 00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:29,160 But you know. 982 00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:32,160 I was expecting it to be more than that. 983 00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:33,160 Yeah. 984 00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:34,160 You know I was just, I don't know. 985 00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:37,640 I don't know what I was thinking but I was like oh I'm gonna get one of the smaller ones 986 00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:39,080 cause you know. 987 00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:44,480 But you don't have to stay in one of the houses to go to the park. 988 00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:46,480 Most people actually just do a day trip there. 989 00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:47,480 Day trip. 990 00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:48,480 Yeah. 991 00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:49,480 Go and hang out for a little bit. 992 00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:50,480 Yeah. 993 00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:52,760 Or go to the next door or whatever you want to do and just head out. 994 00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:53,760 And then they leave. 995 00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:55,880 But you know me I want, I had this vision. 996 00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:59,960 I hired a photographer to take some pictures. 997 00:40:59,960 --> 00:41:03,600 So that's why, and that's why I wanted to get the most, you know least expensive house 998 00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:07,240 cause I wanted a place to put our clothes and change. 999 00:41:07,240 --> 00:41:08,240 But yeah. 1000 00:41:08,240 --> 00:41:09,240 That was a good call. 1001 00:41:09,240 --> 00:41:10,240 Good call by you. 1002 00:41:10,240 --> 00:41:11,240 Gracias. 1003 00:41:11,240 --> 00:41:13,560 Good call by you. 1004 00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:16,680 And then after that it was, it's time to head home. 1005 00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:22,440 And so we decided to put Abatangan Go at the end of our trip so that we could just catch 1006 00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:27,680 our private transport from the Hobbit house straight to the airport. 1007 00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:30,080 First we went to Antigua. 1008 00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:31,080 That's where they picked us up. 1009 00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:32,080 Oh that's right. 1010 00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:33,080 I'm so sorry. 1011 00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:34,080 Yes. 1012 00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:40,120 So Abatangan Go would drop us back off at, they had an office in Antigua. 1013 00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:46,240 So if you're going to Abatangan Go you would just meet at the office in Antigua and then 1014 00:41:46,240 --> 00:41:50,040 they'll send their car down to pick you up. 1015 00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:51,520 And so that's what we did. 1016 00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:58,680 We planned it just right so that our ride from the Hobbit house would took us straight 1017 00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:04,920 to Antigua and then our private transport picked us up from Antigua and took us to the 1018 00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:06,960 airport. 1019 00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:10,840 And then the driver made me feel kind of uncomfortable and uneasy. 1020 00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:11,840 Why? 1021 00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:13,880 He seemed like he didn't know where he was going. 1022 00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:16,560 We had a lot of recalculations on that GPS. 1023 00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:18,440 I'm like where are we going? 1024 00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:19,440 I didn't notice that. 1025 00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:20,440 You didn't notice that? 1026 00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:21,440 No. 1027 00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:24,840 You don't remember going down like these back roads and then they were doing construction 1028 00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:26,280 and he had to change course. 1029 00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:27,280 I remember. 1030 00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:28,280 And he was like who? 1031 00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:29,280 I don't know this part of town. 1032 00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:30,280 I'm like what? 1033 00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:32,080 And I thought we were going to miss our flight. 1034 00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:33,080 I'm like oh my God. 1035 00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:34,080 I remember that now. 1036 00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:35,080 Yeah. 1037 00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:39,720 He took us all over G.C. Guatemala City and he finally got us back to the airport. 1038 00:42:39,720 --> 00:42:40,720 I was a little nervous. 1039 00:42:40,720 --> 00:42:41,720 I'm not going to lie. 1040 00:42:41,720 --> 00:42:43,520 I thought we were trying to get taken. 1041 00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:45,960 You know why I forgot about that part of the trip? 1042 00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:46,960 Why? 1043 00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:50,280 Because I was thinking about all the drama we had with the passports trying to get out 1044 00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:52,280 of Guatemala City. 1045 00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:53,280 Yeah. 1046 00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:54,280 Yeah. 1047 00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:55,280 Because. 1048 00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:58,000 This time you almost got left behind. 1049 00:42:58,000 --> 00:42:59,000 Yeah. 1050 00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:05,000 Because not too long before we took this trip. 1051 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:06,000 One of our Beagles, Scout. 1052 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:07,000 It was probably Scout. 1053 00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:08,000 You know it was Scout. 1054 00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:09,000 It was Scout. 1055 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:10,000 Chewed. 1056 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:11,000 He just chewed up. 1057 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:12,760 He chewed up London Roses too. 1058 00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:14,640 But you always had more damage. 1059 00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:15,640 Yeah. 1060 00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:17,400 I don't know how this dog. 1061 00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:23,640 I had our passports sitting in a pouch on the nightstand because we were getting ready 1062 00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:29,200 to take a trip to Puerto Rico even though you don't need the passport for Puerto Rico. 1063 00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:30,200 I wanted to have blah blah blah. 1064 00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:36,960 Anyway, this dog on dog found my dog on passport pouch, pulled out both passports and chewed 1065 00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:37,960 both of our passports. 1066 00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:38,960 The corners. 1067 00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:39,960 The corners. 1068 00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:45,600 And the way that mine was chewed was going over the little barcode at the bottom. 1069 00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:49,600 And the person in Guatemala. 1070 00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:51,320 She started swiping that thing. 1071 00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:52,320 Looked back at me. 1072 00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:53,320 I don't know why she was looking at me. 1073 00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:54,320 It was your passport. 1074 00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:58,640 And she kept swiping and kept looking me in my eyes like, somebody's not going back to 1075 00:43:58,640 --> 00:43:59,640 the US today. 1076 00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:02,200 She just kept on swiping. 1077 00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:04,160 And then it finally beeped or whatever. 1078 00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:05,160 She's like, okay. 1079 00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:06,160 I was so nervous. 1080 00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:09,320 I'm like, I'm going to leave my wife and child in Guatemala. 1081 00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:14,400 We always have drama with our... Derek, when we left Canada. 1082 00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:16,200 Oh, don't talk about that. 1083 00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:18,240 Derek lost our passports. 1084 00:44:18,240 --> 00:44:19,240 Scout ate the passports. 1085 00:44:19,240 --> 00:44:20,240 I'm going to blame Scout. 1086 00:44:20,240 --> 00:44:21,240 Whatever. 1087 00:44:21,240 --> 00:44:22,960 I'm going to blame Scout for that. 1088 00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:23,960 That's coming soon. 1089 00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:24,960 We'll have to tell you all about that. 1090 00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:25,960 I don't know. 1091 00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:26,960 I don't know. 1092 00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:31,440 About how Derek got to be in control and took everybody's passports and lost all three. 1093 00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:33,200 Well, you needed passports anyway. 1094 00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:35,320 You and London Rose needed new passports anyway. 1095 00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:38,000 Yeah, I did. 1096 00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:39,000 I did. 1097 00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:40,000 I did. 1098 00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:41,000 I did. 1099 00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:42,000 I did. 1100 00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:43,000 And I believe I lost some passports. 1101 00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:44,000 I wasn't ready to get them just yet. 1102 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,720 But anyway, we made it through customs and we're back on the plane. 1103 00:44:46,720 --> 00:44:47,720 We're back in the States. 1104 00:44:47,720 --> 00:44:48,720 What? 1105 00:44:48,720 --> 00:44:49,720 Go ahead. 1106 00:44:49,720 --> 00:44:54,800 I was just going to talk about some of the regrets I had about Antigua. 1107 00:44:54,800 --> 00:45:01,520 I regret that we didn't do a guided walking tour of the city because the city is so historic. 1108 00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:03,360 It's a monument. 1109 00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:07,320 So we should have, instead of resting on that third day, we should have went out and did 1110 00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:09,240 a guided tour. 1111 00:45:09,240 --> 00:45:10,240 Yes. 1112 00:45:10,240 --> 00:45:15,440 Because I feel like the more and more I do research on Antigua, I'm disappointed that 1113 00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:17,640 we didn't do more. 1114 00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:20,880 So what about you? 1115 00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:26,640 I regret that and I regret that we didn't go to Lake Atiklan. 1116 00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:28,000 I want to do that too. 1117 00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:31,920 That was made out of a volcanic crater, right? 1118 00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:32,920 Yeah. 1119 00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:33,920 That's a good one too. 1120 00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:36,360 It's a beautiful lake, yeah. 1121 00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:37,360 How far is that from Antigua? 1122 00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:38,760 It was only like an hour. 1123 00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:41,160 Yeah, we should have made that drive. 1124 00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:43,360 I know y'all are probably thinking an hour. 1125 00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:44,360 That's a long way. 1126 00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:50,240 But when we travel for us, if anything is within a two hour drive, we're willing to 1127 00:45:50,240 --> 00:45:51,240 take it. 1128 00:45:51,240 --> 00:45:52,240 We're willing to do it. 1129 00:45:52,240 --> 00:45:55,200 But the thing is in Guatemala, they don't have the infrastructure. 1130 00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:58,760 So an hour drive is probably actually like three or four hours. 1131 00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:00,200 No, it's an actual hour. 1132 00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:01,200 Really? 1133 00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:02,200 Yes. 1134 00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:05,920 So if they had the infrastructure, maybe it would have been like 30 minutes. 1135 00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:07,120 And so that's the thing with us. 1136 00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:15,280 So two hours is our max because the drive in a foreign country is an adventure. 1137 00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:18,240 It's a lot to see and experience. 1138 00:46:18,240 --> 00:46:22,720 So we don't mind driving up to two hours to a location. 1139 00:46:22,720 --> 00:46:23,720 Easy work. 1140 00:46:23,720 --> 00:46:24,840 Easy work. 1141 00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:25,840 So that's it. 1142 00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:28,000 That's all the regrets I have. 1143 00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:31,160 So we made it back to the States. 1144 00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:34,000 Then we go to Canada and I lose the passports. 1145 00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:36,000 Next time. 1146 00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:39,000 That's it. 1147 00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,600 Later. 1148 00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:48,000 If you made it this far, you are the true champion. 1149 00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:52,320 You could have been anywhere doing anything, but you instead chose to spend your time with 1150 00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:53,320 us. 1151 00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:55,600 And for that, we say thank you. 1152 00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:56,600 I'm Derek. 1153 00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:57,600 I'm Makayla. 1154 00:46:57,600 --> 00:46:59,880 Rate, like and subscribe. 1155 00:46:59,880 --> 00:47:02,200 Do good, be good. 1156 00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:04,200 Until next time.