Lago de Atitlan
I am using a espanol keyboard.  It is making typing very difficult as many of the keys have moved. 

Ahhhh...  4 days of relaxion.  I stayed in the town San Pedro.  The big excitement of the day was to sit in the sun at Nick{s Place, the restaurant nearest the dock and sip $.80 beers while watching to see if any cute girls got off the boat.  Nights got a little more exciting, free movies at 7pm every night and the bar above nicks seemed to have a rave at any excuse, complete with space cakes.  The rave seemed a bit out of place in a little town in the middle of nowhere guatemala, but the israeli dj was very good .

Other excitement - heading up into the town, snacking on good $.14 tamales, watching the locals dressed in very colorful woven mayan garb and shopping in the marcado. 

The big excitement - armed robbery in the hills.  Two groups of tourist climbing the mountain were robbed at gunpoint.  3 men, one with an old machine gun and two with machetes, stopped the groups and demanded their money, watches, backpacks and cameras.  We met a guidebook writer, writing for Fodors and told him the story.  I don't think that San Pedro will get a particularly good writeup in Fodors.  This may be the only thing that keeps this place from becoming overly touristy - they have already began nicely paving one of the streets.  Personally, I'm thinking of printing up t-shirts that read "I climbed volcano san pedro and had 200 quetzales taken by armed bandits." 

Last note - In Antigua they measure their mixed drinks, in San Pedro they pour really, really heavy. 

Shopping today and sending a box full of purchases home.  Tomorrow I'm headign into El Salvador.  And...  I'm still looking for a hotel in Rio.