Weather Watching Whodunit

Bags packed and at the ready, standing at attention like eager little soldiers desperate to serve. Actually, they've been packed for a month,packed and unpacked and re-packed. It's been a packing extravaganza since that visit to Value Village when I bought a pair of practically brand spanking new MEC capris fo an astonishingly crazy $8. Those pants, and another Columbia pair, made the unreal seem real. Let's face it, a year ago I couldn't have imagined that I would be a 160lb woman wearing size 10 capris pants in Antigua, Guatemala.

But I am. This is me in my life.

Anne drove me to Marg's and dropped me off, capris-carrying bags and all. The taxi will pick us up at 4:20am and drive us to the airport. At 6am-ish Air Canada will scoot us off to TO. (Please no wild snow until we take off from there at 8:30am!) The plan is to be in Miami mid-afternoon and Guatemala City for dinner.

Marg is my travel mate. She knows things. Things about international travel that I don't know. You know those people who you meet ever so briefly but feel like you've known them for ever and ever? Marg is that person. She has a zest for life. It oozes from her.

Marg's been to Guatemala before. She took a salsa lesson there.

Things I plan to do in Guatemala (To be revised as the mood strikes me...cause I don't know what I don't know, don't ya know!):
-eat a meal with a Guatemalan family
-build a stove
-take a backstrap weaving class
-learn to say at least one full sentance in Spanish that doesn't refer to a toilet or my need for water.
-kibitz with school children.
-see some live music
-TAKE A SALSA LESSON