One Lucky Girl: Luxury, Tikal, and Roughing It

So it's Saturday night and we're 2/3 through our Tikal weekend trip. For the most part it has been AMAZING! Let's start with that :-)

Friday we drove all day and then spent the night on a little island called Flores, cute place, good dinner and the most amazing shower I've had since I got here...like seriously I'm having dreams about that shower.

A little dark but this is Stephen and Devon on the patio last night. This morning we woke up and ate breakfast there overlooking the lake, beautiful.

We then headed to Tikal...one of the largest Mayan ruin sites. It was INCREDIBLE. I can't wait to see all the pics on Stephen's camera! Here are some from my phone:

It was honestly one of the most amazing places I've ever experienced. It's so phenomenal to think about when the Mayans actually lived there-it blows my mind. They are also still digging more temples out of the jungle. The bottom picture above was just discovered in 1979 and the excavation finished in 2003.

After Tikal we headed to Rio Dulce...that's when things got a little less "amazing". We stopped off at our hotel before dinner---bugs by the door and these insane screeching birds outside. The lady from the hotel lit firecrackers to scare the birds away...weird, loud but effective. We took a boat ride to a yummy place for dinner--cute vibe, delicious burger, funny bathroom sink:

After we got back to the hotel we realized that the ants "by the door" we're actually ants "crawling all over Devon's bed". We asked the guy at the desk and he came and sprayed........GLADE SPRAY. At this point we literally could not stop laughing, even he was laughing a little bit. We were hoping it was some Guatemalan trick like how Greek people use oil olive on everything ;-)....no such luck but at least our ants smelled nice. At this point we decided we'd just share the other double bed away from the ants. While I was busy taking a cold shower, apparently the guy came back with per Devon, "a spray bottle that looked much more legit-there were no flowers on it"...so at this point we have dead ants but may die of fumes. As Devon showers, also cold, and I air out the room, I decide ok maybe now that the ants are dead I'll sleep in that bed. As I'm moving around the sheets killing the last stray ants, a brown thing falls out of the sheets...hmm maybe a leaf. Then, the leg falls out.