After a 12 hour travel day due to Delta losing power; the 40 of us finally made it to Antigua, Guatemala! We got to our house where we all have bunkbeds and running water! This morning we were able to sleep in until 8am, where 6 of us decided to take a self guided tour around the beautiful town. We walked out of our community, and were filled with so much joy. The town is surrounded by two volcanic mountains (one is active)! We walked around market place for a couple miles until we reached a city square. In the middle was a 50 foot pool of water where all of the local women were washing clothes on washboards. As you looked around you saw kids running around laughing, playing, or running errands for there family! Our mission was to find a coffee shop because we were all so tired from yesterdays travel. With the best Spanish we could work up, we finally found someone and asked “Donde es Café”; which means were is the coffee or the cafe. She pointed up the street where we saw a sign that said “Café”. We thanked her in Spanish and began walking to the coffee shop where there were two people working: a man and a women. We walked in looking like very confused Americans trying to ask for coffee in Spanish. For about a minute we tried hard to get across the point that we needed coffee to the 50 year old man working there… Come to find out he was just enjoying the comedy show of our struggle to speak Spanish and he said, “would you like it better if I spoke in english”? We all laughed and he told us that him and his wife had moved to Guatemala 2 years ago from San Francisco, California, to open this coffee shop and also start an animal rescue organization. Next door to this coffee shop was a family who was making bread and tortillas in there home for all of the locals. I being very curious walked over to them and again tried speaking Spanish; asking what there names were and how old the children were. I ended up talking to this 17 year old girl named Annette who was holding a 1 year old girl. She was at the family’s house taking care of the kids that were running around. We had a conversation until I ran out of Spanish questions and phrases, and I helped her with the 1 year old! Overall this day so far has been unforgettable! More updates to come!
This is Annette holding the baby outside of the home where the family was making bread and tortillas! 
