Last day in Antigua today. Feels like the perfect amount of time here. We’re ready to go home, but also feel at peace here.

Today we dove back in to a market in town that has many booths of local people selling goods, mostly hand-made goods from the Mayans.

The people in the booths are the used car salesman of this place. The sell you things more aggressively than I’ve seen anywhere else. They also play games with you…haggling games. You can almost always work them down to half of the price they start out with, and if you don’t feel like haggling, you can simply ask them how much for something, pause, then say you’re going to go look around and think about it…and they drop the price right in front of you….

The closer you get to leaving their booth, the lower they go. Not my favorite kind of shopping.

The weather was lovely, lovely today. Right around 80 degrees with a slight breeze.

The three of us strolled around town, found an open air market of local Mayans (no salesman at this market…just the Mayans who make things with their hands.)

We also found our way to the biggest church in town, San Francisco. It looked quite old, though I’m not sure of the exact age. It was likely built in the 1600′s though.

We had a chance to listen to some Bolivian music in the central park, and then made our way home to eat and pack.

Noah’s just gone to sleep now, and we’re going to follow right behind him, as we have to get up at 4:30 am to catch our airport shuttle at 5 am. Going to be a long day tomorrow, and will probably be a bit jolting to travel right back in to winter, with a fresh blanket of snow on the ground back home.

Noah got to say goodbye to all of his friends here today, the staff who work here. He’s become quite close with Cupertino, the maintenance worker here, as well as Maya, one of the masseuses. As he was saying goodbye to Cupertino (who he called “dorgee” for some reason), he gave him two very big, sweet hugs. It just melts your heart.

Here’s a link to the photo set to see the latest batch of pics from today:

Click here to see the Antigua photo set

Hope you’ve all enjoyed the travel updates. I’ll be posting a video soon, hopefully, of some footage from the trip.

Cheers,
Papa Forest