We've spent the past three days doing some final things: eating at certain places for the last time, shopping in the market for some movies to take back to Honduras with us. They have a much better selection of movies in Guatemala than we do in Honduras. The movies are copies but you can't find originals because of all the people selling the copies that are so much cheaper than what an original would cost they just can't compete. We also had gone to the little pueblo (town) of Pastores on Saturday and ordered some boots for a friend that wanted some. The man at the boot store told us they would be ready by 11:00 am on Thursday. We, thinking we are working on Latin American time, hoped they would be ready by 2:00 pm or so. Rarely do things seem to be finished by the time someone says. It's just the way it is and once you learn that everything is fine.
So, we took the "chicken bus" for the 15 minute ride to Pastores and arrived about 1:50. Only problem was the store was closed. The lady in the store across the street said he was at lunch until at least 3:00. Not much to do in Pastores if you're not there for boots so we caught the next bus back to Antigua to eat lunch. (we haven't eaten lunch up to this point). Got back to Antigua, ate lunch, walked back to the bus and rode another "chicken bus" back to Pastores - arriving about 4:00. This time the store was open, the boots were ready, we picked them up, caught the next bus back to Antigua and learned a lesson. Sometimes here, when someone says it will be finished by a certain time they mean it. Oh, well. Guess our problem now is learning how to tell when they actually mean the specific time and when it's an approximation.
There is a circus in town this week. On the second trip back from Pastores as we passed the circus we noticed a group of people standing around a trailer attached to a pickup. The trailer was a small, home-made, wooden trailer with screen around the top. Looks like a trailer someone would make at home for hauling wood but with the additional screen on top. The trailer is attached to an old pickup. And, inside the trailer is a full grown lion. Wished we had our camera.
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