Plans are for Ben Gibbard

So Brent and I have changed our plans around a little.  We got to Atitlan to a hotel that had been described by a woman from Chicago as "the most beautiful place she'd ever seen" and it lived up to the hype.  We stayed an extra day reading by the lake and taking a hike, and today have decided to make the trek up to Tikal in the north of Guatemala rather than over to Copan across the southern border in Honduras.  The travel agency woman tried to sell us tickets for $10 each to TIkal (when the going rate was $45) but we kindly reminded her that the exchange rate was in fact 8 to 1, not 2 to 1.  Additionally, we taught her that there was no way the bus that left at 4 PM got to Flores at 10 PM, since it was 4 hours to Guatemala City and then another 8 to 10 up from there to Flores.  I'm not sure what the difficulty was...  We'll hopefully spend some time up in Belize also before coming back the Guatemala City before we leave on Tuesday.