BOOM!
CRASH!
BANG!
BAM!
CRRAACK!
CLUNK!
KLUNK!
THUNK!
THWACKE!
QUNCKKK!
RAKKK!
Give us a break a volcano kept us up all night!
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Acatenango
Fuego is a volcano that’s almost always having little eruptions.
Next to it is Acatenango
From Acatenango there are good views of Fuego.
We have finally learned our lesson regarding hiking so we took a 4×4 up.
So we only had to walk through the clouds for 45 minutes.
Fuego is very noisy.
Sometimes it makes loud booms like fireworks followed by thuds as the big rocks settle.
Other times it just rumbles like thunder.
There are nice views of the sleepy volcano too, but that’s less exciting.
There is a lot of ash blowing around up here, but only because it is cold.
The ash from the volcano blows the other way.
We will be spending the night up here so we can see the volcano in the dark.
We have a luxury tent for 9 people.
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Chetumal
We walked around Chetumal.
Matt protected the city from pirate invasion.
We watched an exciting ball game.
Matt wouldn’t let Kerri go down the slide.
Or go skating, even though no one here knows how to skate so she would probably be the best.
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Casa de Alfenique
Matt was not impressed by the fancy Colonial house
It had weird needlepoint
And expensive but uncomfortable looking chairs
It had big rooms
But teeny tiny staircases
There was lots of pottery in the kitchen
And a weird little oven
And a big stove
The chapel was bigger than some churches we’ve seen
It has a little courtyard with a fountain in the middle
And a creepy hollow eyed goat cow
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Cholula
This is the world’s largest pyramid.
See it?
It’s under the church.
Use your x-ray vision to look under all the trees.
A bit has been excavated and reconstructed on the other side.
But it still mostly looks like a hill.
When they clear off the vegetation they find the rounded bit in front, and then they have to reconstruct to get the nice clean pyramid in the background.
But they can’t do too much of that here because there’s a fancy church in the way.
With a lot of gold
So most of the archeology happens underground
In tunnels
From the church there are good views of the town
And all of the other churches
