Lake Atitlan

We arrived in Guatemala City on Wednesday March 5th and took a private driver to Lake Atitlan which is about a 3 hr drive. We went to a town called Panajachel and stayed our first night at Posada Don Rodrigo.
We spent the evening walking the streets and shopping the markets. We bought many many cute dresses for Isabella. The next morning we again walked the town and people watched. We found a school on the main street that we stood in front of and watched the kids play for a while. There were so many kids who would notice us, stare and then smile at us. There was one little girl outside of school who came and stood by me. I took many pictures of her and she would just smile. I gave her a dollar and she looked at me and really smiled. She clutched that dollar so tight in her little hand. She was maybe 4 years old. Then we went to the docks and took our private boat driver to our next hotel La Casa El Mundo. The only access to this hotel is from boat. It was unbelievable! It was so beautiful except for the steep walks up rock steps. We just relaxed in our hammocks over looking the 3 volcanoes that surrounded us. The grounds were so beautiful with so many different flowering trees and shrubs. Flowers everywhere you looked. We actually just sat around and talked by ourselves what a concept! Then it was off to play a couple games of battleship, of course Rach lost all the games. They only serve one dinner a night which is set up like a party. It was a candle light multi course dinner. Since there are only 12 rooms on the cliff it was neat to sit with everybody and meet people from around the world. There were people there from France, Germany, Italy and of course the USA.