It's the End of the World as We Know it [And I Feel Fine]

I know movies and books say that when you think you are going to die your life passes before your eyes.  I can now say for sure that it is not true.  When you think you are going to die, you laugh hysterically.

On our way to the spay/neuter clinic in San Antonio [the same path we took the day before] the girls and I joked about the car stalling yesterday, joking about the wrath of Mayan gods and their ability to know when you are talking about the end of the world [in which Erika replied that it is all a bunch of "Hibity-Gibity".  Unfortunately for us, it appears God has a sick sense of humor that manifested in the form of the breaks failing as we sped down an unpaved hill on a mountain.  We knew it was bad when Dr. Emma [who was driving] started to yell "SHIT! SHIT"  with a chorus of screeches and crunches coming from the van.  Since we all apparently found our potential demise via van smashing funny, everyone in the car laughed their way as we coasted down the hill [so I may be exaggerating the story, we're all fine.  No one freak out].   Luckily Dr. Isabelle wasn't far behind and brought us to the clinic.

The spays and neuters went by quickly considering the fact that we had a lot less to do than we did in Sarteneja.  However, we did do a spay on a bitch that was pregnant [avert your eyes children, this one is pretty gory].

 
 We did get a sweet new ride to take us back into town to pick up our fixed [cursed] van.

[They see us rollin' they hatein']

When we finished around noon, it was raining pretty hard and none of us were really up for river tubing.  Instead we decided to check out the Mayan ruins of Xunantunich [as if the Mayans hadn't caused us enough trouble] where they apparently held temple services [and maybe had a few human sacrifices?].

 

The walk up to the ruins was pretty rough [I noticed right away that we could've driven up, but Dr. Emma said we could use the exercise -_-].  I must say, I don't think I've ever been to a more beautiful place in my life.  The view from the top was breathtaking and I wished I could've brought a book and read up there all day.  We had fun taking various pictures around the ruins and goofing off.

We had a delicious dinner at Dr. T's house where he had a barbecue and made lamb [freshly slaughtered, and yes mom, I tried it].  Afterwords we hit a local bar where there was dancing in the rain, taking a photo-shoot in a cemetery, a drink called "the horny monkey [somehow someone ordered that for me], and a discussion about "paunches".

Tomorrow we are going to ATM cave [which has apparently been featured in national geographic] for an intense hike and swim through the jungle.

Cheers!