Wedding Day

As the church bells rang, again, at 6am etc. etc. I woke up the "bride". However, unlike most brides I had to go to Guatemala City to pick up our last bit of paperwork. The Estado de Libertad.

Thus we had breakfast and started our adventure, trying to get to Guatemala City.

Hmmh.

How is this going to work? I know we have to get on a bus, or pay $40 usd via taxi to get there but how does the bus system in Guatemala really work?

Well, as one of the multi-colored buses approached us with a guy hanging out the door yelling "guatey, guatey, guatey" we hopped on board, taking the last two seats available, in the back. Lorin was ahead of me, I seated against the very back door.

As one leaves Guatemala you immediately start heading up one of the mountainous roads that eventually takes you to Guatemala City. Thinking nothing of it I settle in for a sight-seeing tour but as I look at the seat in front of me I notice that everyone is praying. Sweet Jesus I said. What is this about...

Then as we starting hitting the turns I knew. Im not really sure what kept our bus from tipping over other than possibly all the prayers on board. I do know that we would take the corners at a speed of about 60 mph, and every single person would slid to the end of their seat. But those that have done this numerous times just lift up and return to their position in the seat. Me, I think I left indentation in the seat in front of me. I looked at the guy next to me constantly apologizing for ending up in his lap.

This high speed, half-keeled bus situation lasted a good 20 plus minutes. Of which I may have found religion too?

Finally, after meeting some boy who was most helpful and took us where we needed to go we made it to the Embassy. The American Embassy has high high high security and through it all, we were the only Americans in there. Maybe 150 Guatemalans were trying to get visas, or passports, or something else but it made our task much easier....thus we got it...the Libertad de Estado.

SO, everything is final and off I must run to pick up flores and my dress, I got a wedding in a couple of hours to attend to!

How many brides can honestly say they just are getting ready 2 hours before their wedding starts? Well, we just got home and moved to our hotel, thus....

Wish you were all here to celebrate with us, pero, mas tarde!