Arrival: Guatemala City

We made it safely to Guatemala City with our luggage.  The first song that came on the radio in our taxi was "it's like rain on your wedding day," and most of the movies are in english with spanish subtitles.  No wonder everyone else's english is better than my spanish.  The hostel is locked by a gate and the banks all have two guards.  Phil and I went to the zoo and read the signs - between the two of us we could make out most of the words and meaning.  The funny thing is most of our houseplants grow here outside year round.  Spider plants, dragon palms, umbrella plants, and also flowering trees. The temp is nice here, apparently Esquipulas is hot and dry.  We take the bus tomorrow, I think the fee for a 4.5 hour ride is as much as we paid for our pizza tonight (the only thing we could get delivered when we where hungry after dark).  Holy shit do they pack people in cars and buses here.  We saw at least 10 people in a sub compact car today, we'll have to try that back in the states.