San Pedro y Lago d'Atílan

Jeff and I had a good trip to the lake. We JUST caught the 12:30 shuttle to Panajachel, walked to the dock and JUST caught the speed boat to San Pedro, where we easily found a 2nd floor room for uber cheap. After that, we headed to the big sports bar for the Superbowl...food was decent, the officials weren't very good.
The following day we went for a horse back ride. First off we zig zagged through narrow alleyways, down cobblestone roads, and finally onto a horesback trail around Volcan San Pedro. An hour of riding and we arrived to a beautiful beach with crystal clear water. Lago d'Atilan is an old volcano crater, and the steep cliffs surrounding are a give away. A couple beer and a quick dip, and we were hopped on the horses back to San pedro. The horses were getting anxious to get home and were competing for whom was to lead,which gave me and Jeff some fun horseback racing.
That night we met up with some brothers from Toronto and went to a place called Tacos + Tacos...it was pretty pathetic, or we just go ripped off being 'an obnoxious group of Gringos'. Afterwards, we played pool for a good couple of hours with a German, Norweigan and Swedish dude, before heading to another party at the Gran Manzana. A very chill, hippyish town where it would be easy to spend a week, but unfortunatley don't have the time, so Tuesday was a big travel day to go clear across the country.
We hopped on the 8:30pm 'economical' bus from Guatemala City and arrived in Flores at 5:30 this morning. A quick pitstop and some simple breakfast before we found a shuttle to the greatest of Mayan Ruins...Tikal! Wildlife everywhere as we set up camp. Jeff is sleeping right now after a rough night being sick into a gallan milk jug (economical bus aka no bathrooms, and not the comfiest of seats). When he wakes up we'll go tour around the ruins. I'll post the pics in a couple days, but in the meantime here are some of the lake.

Photos: The morning view from our budget hotel...Dusty and Chuck taking a break while we head to the beach...Jeff and I enjoying a couple on Lago d'Atilan with Volcan Toliman in the background