Time Out For Antigua

Generally I would like to keep posts in chronological order, but today I make a break. I have things from various settings in our mission but I haven't quite put them together yet. So we are taking a day trip to Antigua. We ended up with a rare Friday off at the clinic, and the Dental crew decided to tour the old capital of Guatemala. It was moved to Guatemala City some time ago because of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions which recurrently destroyed parts of the city.

Now Antigua is a tourist city that has a lot of local color and a volcano looming in the background.

There are motorcycles in abundance lining the cobblestone streets.

From the balcony of a local restaurant you see some of the ruins of the "old Antigua" in the background.

and this is that restaurant!

And this is some of the color of that eatery.

We visited a chocolate factory which was a twist on chocolate as we know it. Look closely at the statue, and then at the worker on the right. See the resemblance? 

And lastly there was some of the traditional color of Guatemala. There are definite cloth patterns for each local city or group of people, and the following pics show some of that part of the color and the people. The people are humble, soft spoken wonderful people. I hope you enjoy them as much as we do.

And the last color ; the color of some amazing wood!