Tikal Tikal Tikal (get it? like tickle tickle tickle...?)

MORE PICTURES COMING...FOR SOME REASON I CAN'T FIND MY TIKAL PICS AT THIS MOMENT!

Last trip of the trip= Tikal. Definitely not as cool as some of the other trips, but still pretty swell. We got to take a plane to the northern part of Guatemala and we explored the ruins at Tikal. Oh yeah, I guess there was one cool part. On the way in, the driver stops and points up to this tree and what's in it? A REAL LIVE FRICKIN' MONKEY! Eating this fruit! It was so cool. I took hundreds of pictures. Then there were three of them...swinging through the trees. It was excellent. We saw a bunch more once we got into the ruins area. And, the coolest part, a monkey fight! The guide was telling us about this pyramid ruin thing and human rituals that were done there blah blah blah, and all the sudden ooeeeee oooehee ahhha the monkeys are going NUTS! (or should I say bananas) but by the time I ran over to their tree (probably not the best idea to encroach on fighting wild animals' territory) they stopped screaming so I couldn't get any video. But we did hear howler monkeys which were so loud! I got so excited cuz it sounds like a lion's roar and I thought there was a lion in the jungle. How sweet would that have been? The king of the jungle. But no. However I did take some video purely for the sound purpose of recording the sound of death coming from the depths of the jungle. K we climbed so frickin' many ruins, it's like intense jungle stair stepper...for hours and, not gonna lie, I got pretty sick of them. I understand: the Mayans were sweet...hundreds of years ago! Sorry I have a bad attitude. It was cool (me being such a huge Star Wars fan...?) that one of the temples was the site of filming for one of the movies. Sorry, I don't know which one.


Here's Kala and I after climbing said Star Wars pyramid ruin thing.

But by the end we were so exhausted, knowing we had to pack to get back home, that we just wanted to get outta there. The next day at the pool we made up this money synchronized-swimming routine (which I have on video!) and Kala and I went out in a canoe on this lake. That was beautiful! We had our own little hotel room, so it was even more like a honeymoon! Kala and I joke all the time that the whole Guatemala Term has just been a honeymoon, since we're together all the time sharing beds and exploring these beautiful places. I made her an album of all the pics from the whole trip of just the two of us. It's called (appropriately) The Honeymoon Collection. So Tikal was a good trip, cool to see, glad we saw it, but we were glad to get back to Antigua and get ready to GO HOME!